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Quotes About Body

I can smell arousal, Talin. You get hot every time you see me half-naked." The erotic need that flared through her body was mortifying. Perhaps that explained the stupidity of her next words. "Maybe I get that way for every half-naked man.
~ Nalini Singh
Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)
~ Nalini Singh
The wolf had not only ridden her into damn near unconsciousness, he'd given her the best orgasms of her life. And that was plain embarrassing. Her best sex had been with a wolf. Pathetic. Except her body was telling her to shut up and wallow. 'Cause this felt gooooood. Good enough that she might even want to repeat it.
~ Nalini Singh
The Psy race's greatest advantage was the mind; the changelings', the body.
~ Nalini Singh
I remembered to keep my body inclined low, to shrink myself smaller than he. He was sensitive about my greater height.
~ Nalo Hopkinson
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
~ Nam June Paik
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
~ Nam June Paik
They were Siamese twins, joined at the groin by a traitorous piece of meat.
~ Nancy A. Collins
La langue anglais fait la distinction entre deux types de nudité: alors que "nude" implique le recul, le regard qui cadre et met à distance, "naked" fait sentir toute la vulnérabilité d'un corps dévêtu, exposé, intime ou intimidé. (p.170)
~ Unknown
Distant American colonies were presented as a cure. The poor could be purged. In 1622, the famous poet and clergyman John Donne wrote of Virginia in this fashion, describing the new colony as the nation's spleen and liver, draining the "ill humours of the body . . . to breed good bloud.
~ Unknown
Mother, of course, takes a lot of exercise, walks and so on. And every morning she puts on a pair of black silk drawers and a sweater and makes indelicate gestures on the lawn. That's called Building the Body Beautiful. She's mad about it.
~ Nancy Mitford
Why is it considered acceptable to carve up a person's body to match their inner sense of self but bigoted to help them change their sense of self to match their body?
~ Nancy Pearcey
But the truth is that Christianity has a much more respectful view of our psycho-sexual identity. It is not anti-sex, it is pro-body.
~ Unknown
Donn Welton summarizes the effects of the Reformation by saying, "Perhaps nothing sets it in contrast to medieval Christendom more than the Reformation's rejection of its denigration of the body. Within certain moral boundaries, the powers of the body were fully celebrated.
~ Unknown
Illness was thus considered not so much a condition of the human body as a reflection of a doubting or ailing spirit.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right. Lucy Scarborough Nancy Werlin
~ Nancy Werlin
Some people say it is okay to be fat but you must think of being healthy,I personally think loving yourself ,your body is the healthiest thing one can do.
~ Unknown
Sailor Moon, you likely will be forever immortal. For you are the most beautiful, shining heavenly body of all time.
~ Naoko Takeuchi
You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbour the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies.
~ Naomi Alderman
You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbor the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies. God lies within you, God has returned to earth to teach you, in the form of this new power.
~ Naomi Alderman
You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbor the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies. God lies within you, God has returned to earth to teach you, in the form of this new power. Do not come to me looking for answers, for you must find the answers within yourself.
~ Naomi Alderman
You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbor the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies.
~ Naomi Alderman
Vi è stato insegnato che siete immonde, che non siete sante, che il vostro corpo è impuro e non potrebbe mai essere la sede del divino. Vi hanno insegnato a disprezzare tutto ciò che siete e ad aspirare solo a essere un uomo. Ma vi hanno insegnato menzogne. Dio
~ Naomi Alderman
It feels as natural as anything she's ever done, as known and understood as the first time she had sex, as her body saying, Hey, I got this.
~ Naomi Alderman