“Our body is our body, and what she has experienced, whether it is a physical experience or a spiritual one, what she has made, has shaped into your position.”

“I am therefore my body, at least to the full extent of my experience, and vice versa, and my body is like a natural subject, like a temporary prototype of my whole being.” (Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception

“Woman, like man, is her body, but her body is something different from her.”

I got three girls to measure different parts of their bodies with a tape measure and to be at their most comfortable and at their body parts.

When measuring, the girls were curious, but in the process of measuring, we judged ourselves by a so-called “standard,” and the girls responded that they were not happy, proving that this did not make them better. So we find that when we look at numbers, they are just numbers and do not bring us happiness. But when the girls are entirely loose and let go of their bodies, they are happy. That’s the answer I got. When standards or numbers are insight, they are not your body, much less you.