“My body is foreign to me that body that sustains me and will, ultimately, kill me.”
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
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Hungarian writer 1929–2016Related quotes
“My body separates me from all beings and all things. Only my body.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mi cuerpo me separa de todo ser y de toda cosa. Nada más que mi cuerpo.
Voces (1943)
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
“My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“He asked to see me again. I think he wants me for my body.”
Ken Livingstone (1945) Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008
Remarks to the press after meeting Secretary of State for Transport Norman Fowler (18 June 1981), quoted in Citizen Ken (1984) by John Carvel, p. 107.
“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”
Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks
Variant: Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“I don’t need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist