Clothing and nudity - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

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Though he was now quite naked, you must not think that he was cold or unhappy. He was usually very happy and gay.

- J. M. Barrie, The LittleWhite Bird, or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens (1902)

Clothes, therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (1914)

Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Son of Tarzan (1917)

Following Derringer's advice he had traveled [through time] naked - ''the one costume common to all ages,'' the scientist had boomed.

- Anthony Boucher, ''The Barrier'' (1942)

He wore nothing but a loincloth, but dignity clothed him amply.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (1972)

She was quite naked, the way I'd seen her at the first, but she had the sort of nakedness that seems like clothes, clean-cut, firm and flawless.

- Tanith Lee, ''The Thaw'' (1979)

Clothing was a language and Coretti a kind of sartorial stutterer, unable to make the kind of basic coherent fashion statement that would put strangers at their ease. His ex-wife told him he dressed like a Martian; that he didn't look as though he belonged anywhere in the city.

- John Shirley and William Gibson, ''The Belonging Kind'' (1981)

She was dressed in her own beauty, like Mother Eve before the Fall. She made it seem so utterly appropriate that I wondered how I had ever acquired the delusion that freedom from clothing equals obscenity.

- Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates.What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order; I belong here.Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women?

- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1986)

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1986)

''You see, jewelry isn't just something she wears,'' said the ghost of Teppicymon XXVII. ''It's part of who she is.''

- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (1989)

All across the multiverse there are backward tribes. [. . .] Considered backward, that is, by people who wear more clothes than they do.

- Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad (1991)

Clothing seems to be an encumbrance for alien beings.

- Nancy Johnston, ''The Rendez-Vous: The True Story of Jeannetta (Netty) Wilcox'' (1998)