“Popular “tradwife” blogger the Thinking Housewife goes so far as to call that so-called provocative female attire a form of “aggression” against men, praising one reader who writes, “Immodest dress is analogous to male violence,” and others who describe such clothing choices as “a form of sexual har…”— David Futrelle, washingtonpost.com
“I was doing a show, and my father was so sweet. He was like, 'Oh, baby, I’m going to come see you live.' And he’d show up and I’d be dancing to Judas Priest in a thong on a stage, and he’d have a freaking heart attack. And I’m like, 'But, Daddy, it’s art! It’s performance art! It’s the performance a…”— Lady GaGa, amazon.com
“You may not know this, but I’m actually a very modest and anxious person, and even writing 'masturbation' in the book was stressful to me.”— Lena Dunham, amazon.com
“[after Clyde shows off his marksmanship with a handgun] Bonnie Parker: You're good! Clyde Barrow: I ain't good. I'm the best! Bonnie Parker: And modest!”— David Newman, Robert Benton, Robert Towne, Clyde Barrow, Warren Beatty, imdb.com
“I have no intention of making a spectacle of myself, thank you.”— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews, imdb.com
“I discovered I don't I don't have to flaunt it to be attractive...if you know what I mean”— Alan Rafkin, Joan Rossi, Emma Gemignani, imdb.com
“The modesty doctrine isn’t about clothes, it’s about bodies. It’s a method for punishing women who do not conform to an idealized, asexual, inoffensive body type...When I was rebuked for my clothing as a teenager, it was often identical to the clothing all the other girls were wearing. The only diff…”— Suzanne Calulu, patheos.com
“Happy week and remember if you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Catholicism and other Christian religions are yet another weapon against indigeneity by the European colonizers, and that the myth of purity is bullshit. Women do not belong to men nor to god.”— Carolyn A. García, afropunk.com
“Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.”— Jackie Gleason, books.google.com
“The beauty of a naked body is only appreciated by cultures that use clothing. Modesty is important for sensuality like resistance for energy.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”— Ken Kesey, amazon.com
“'Modesty is invisibility,' said Aunt Lydia. 'Never forget it. To be seen, to be SEEN, is to be,' her voice trembled, 'Penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable.'”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“No matter how I present myself, I’m confident and I’m comfortable. My self-respect is doing what makes me happy. When I’m hungry, I eat, when I’m thirsty I drink, I have self-respect, I look after myself. You can't tell me what ladylike is because we don't live in the '50s any more. I am looking for…”— Faith Sobotker, news.com.au
“Modesty lost its appeal when I decided I no longer wanted to be moderate at anything, but excel exceptionally at everything. I began to see the beauty in my indecency exposed.”— amiiiritafari, amiiiritafari.tumblr.com
“Self-respect has nothing to do with sex or nudity. Self-respect means making choices that make you happy.”— Unknown, femalecollective.tumblr.com
“We've been taught having self respect means keeping ourselves covered, not showing too much skin, not too much cleavage... we've been told wearing booty shorts make us cheap and nasty. We've been told we have to act, dress, and do certain things in order to have self respect - but we are not the one…”— hannah-ruth-x, hannah-ruth-x.tumblr.com