Body Quotes - Page 18

• Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

  Pam Grier

  Thank You, Character, Looks

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• In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Survival, Quality

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Aging, Life Is

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood by is that women are beautiful and sexy. We shouldn't be afraid of that. [But] we need to make sure that we present that beauty and that sexiness in a way that says we are in control of our bodies. We're strong, we're classy, we're beautiful, powerful beings to be reckoned with, not victims.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beautiful, Sexy, Strong

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• It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy, I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.

  Christina Hendricks

  Sexy, People, Sound

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

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• My sister has an incredible body. I feel sorry for anyone who would judge her, because she's one sexy lady... It's disgusting that people would say those things.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Sexy, Sorry, People

  Women's Health Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I had a lot of challenges losing the weight. I still haven't lost the weight yet and I don't plan on going back to the body I used to be at. I love my sexy curves!

  Kendra Wilkinson

  Sexy, Curves, Challenges

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Air, Brain, Enemy

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• After 20 years in special operations trust me, I know my body.

  Joe Teti

  Years, Survival, Special

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• Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

  Danitra Vance

  Survival, Triumph, Spirit

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• In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Years, Anorexia

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin

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• Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.

  Susan Bordo

  Self Worth, Issues, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Life, Pain, Fall

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• For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

  Mabel Elsworth Todd

  Life, Men, Emotional

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• Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Life, Muscles

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• Complete health and awakening are really the same.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Awakening

  Tarthang Tulku (1975). “Reflections of Mind: Western Psychology Meets Tibetan Buddhism”

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• The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Get Well, Healing

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• Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Life, Heart, Six

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

  Harriet Lerner

  Life, Knows

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Life, Strong, Thinking

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Return

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• Smiling, sincere, incorruptible -
  His body disciplined and limber.
  A man who had become what he could,
  And was what he was-
  Ready at any moment to gather everything
  Into one simple sacrifice.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Sacrifice, Simple

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• When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always had an excuse. Then one morning, she didn't show up. Later, I learned she'd fled a violent marriage. I've always thought, If only I'd known, maybe I could have helped.

  Patty Murray

  Mother, Morning, Kids

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• What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Individuality, Fundamentals

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• The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Science, Vegetables, Roots

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