QUOTES 1/30/2019

“We all agree that people shouldn't be discriminated against whether they have breasts or not.  There's no reason for that.” - Þórgnýr Thoroddsen, Director City of Reykjavik sports and recreation department (Iceland), http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2017/01/16/topless_guests_welcome_in_reykjavik_swimming_pools/

“Zwarte Cross 2013 vrijdag & Naked Run for Freedom Amnesty International” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_siT3adMB0A

“We know what it’s like to be told over and over and over again by red-faced preachers that our legs, our breasts, our curves, our bodies have the bewitching power to ‘make our brothers stumble.’  So it is our responsibility to cover them [our legs] up, to dress modestly to ‘please our brothers’ by keeping them on the path of righteousness. . . When I caught a male classmate’s eye on them, a wave of guilt would rush over me—Oh no, he noticed me!  I’ve made him stumble.  To this day, I have to deliberately avoid folding my arms in front of my chest because I made such a habit of it in my youth.” - Rachel Held Evans, http://qideas.org/articles/modesty-i-dont-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/

“. . . I’d forgotten I was naked.  I was just a body among bodies.  Big bodies, trim bodies, 30-something to 70-something bodies.  Nothing special.  No shame, no glory.  No big deal.  It was a healthy reminder.  We should all get naked with a bunch of strangers sometimes to see who we really are, to curb our self-preoccupation, to get over ourselves.” – Susan Kraus, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-kraus/getting-naked-with-strang_b_4966707.html

“Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: `There`s a naked person outside!’” – Mike Nichols, https://jenniespalette.com/2008/07/12/friday-nude-quotes-3-8/

“I felt my insecurities about body image and exposing my private parts start to fade away.  All the years of my misconceptions about what other people thought of my naked body disappeared.  All my scars and stretch marks that told my life story took on a badge of honor, instead of the shame game I had been playing with myself all those years. . . That day on the nude beach, though, no one was judging, even though many sunbathers there had stretch marks, aged skin, and cellulite.” – Sandra LaMorgese, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandra-lamorgese-phd/how-going-to-a-nude-beach_b_7801850.html