“Bosom not as copious as she would wish, but has noticed that Botticelli bosoms are not big either. Legs OK, according to husband. Freckles.”
Julia Child
more infosource: Describing herself in a February 23, 1953 letter to Avis DeVoto in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 78.
category: body, book review, breasts, freckles, legs, self
medium: letter
notes: Quoted in Dwight Garner's review of the book in the New York Times, "Friends Who Didn’t Mince Words," December 9, 2010.
“Then there is the stamp of old age on the face, head, hands and ankles. These blue-cheese ankles—what a punishment for narcissists!”
Saul Bellow
more infosource: letter to Julian Behrstock, dated January 14, 1997, in Saul Bellow: Letters (New York: Viking, 2010), 530–31.
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category: aging, appearance, body, narcissism
medium: letter
“When it comes to learning to control the body and its experiences, we are as children compared to the great Eastern civilizations. In many respects, what the West has accomplished in terms of harnessing material energy is matched by what India and the Far East have achieved in terms of direct control of consciousness.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
more infosource: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), 103.
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category: body, consciousness, materialism, meditation
medium: nonfiction (psychology/self-help)
“Always the purpose of treatment is only to restore nature’s balance against disease. There is no recovery unless it comes from the force and fiber of one’s own tissues. The physician’s role is to be the cornerman—stitch up the lacerations, apply the soothing balm, encourage the use of the fighter’s specific abilities, say all the right things—to encourage the flagging strength of the real combatant, the pummeled body. As doctors, we do our best when we remove the obstacles to healing and encourage organs and cells to use their own nature-given power to overcome.”
Sherwin B. Nuland
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