Ruth Bernhard Quotes

What happens when you're naked is that people get that you're really just a human being. There are parts of it that are pretty appalling, and there are parts that are okay. That's what it looks like. If you can embrace and accept what people look like in the altogether, it's not so difficult to accept them with their clothes on.

We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?

I find nothing wrong with the naked body.

Why do I love being naked? Because I was born that way?

If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone's naked. It's not a bad thing.

I walk around naked all the time, but it doesn't mean I am completely comfortable and happy with my body.

When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.

I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

My body is normal, and I'm not trying to prove anything.

Underwear. It's like a god damned leash. It also constantly reminds me of how funny I look naked.

There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

We used to take it really hard when people criticized us about what we were wearing, but not anymore.

I've spent a lot of time being insecure about my body, but it's done so much for me. It's my tool, my vessel for my job.

I'm pale, and people need to accept that I'm almost see-through.

After so many years of being rejected and having my body scrutinized... for Aerie to come along and basically say, 'We accept you. We don't care about your size.' To see those pictures on a Times Square billboard, and they were completely unretouched, I just was like, 'Wow. I finally feel good enough!'

I spent so many years being repeatedly rejected and told I wasn't good enough. It took a huge toll on my self-esteem until I realized I am more than my body and that, actually, our beauty comes from diversity.

I'm OK with people being naked. There shouldn't be a huge deal made about it.

I don't preach body positivity - I'm just okay with the body I'm in and say, 'I love me, so you should love you.'

Everyone has a butt. No matter what size it is, you can work it.

Get your body as ready as you can when you are looking for swimsuits to feel good about yourself because it's so awful looking and shopping for bathing suits.

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

It's OK to love your body the way it is.

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of harmony with nature, and he does not know where he will arrive if he goes forward. Man's existential contradiction results in a state of constant disequilibrium. This disequilibrium distinguishes him from the animal, which lives, as it were, in harmony with nature.