"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Body, Man, Water, World

"The body has a mind of its own."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Body, Fact, Will

"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat."

Dieting

"It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set."

Time

"I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever."

Love

"I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish."

Life

"Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience."

Experience

"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."

Character

"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."

Quality

"I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances."

Acting

"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."

People

"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."

Movies