Top 55 Bra Quotes

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you’re just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

I’m big-busted… I can’t always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.

You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women – in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.

I’ve been around the world and I’ve had bras made in different places, and each time I’m experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

We are very luck to be women, so even if we’re wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra – I like that.

Women’s minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that ‘Free Spirit’ has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.

I wore a padded bra every single day and night from the age of 14 until I was 31. Giving up padding was my New Year’s resolution. I had known for ages that wearing a stuffed bra was a form of hiding my real body.

I love the ‘Victoria’s Secret Knockout Front-close Strappy-back Sport Bra.’ After a strenuous and sweaty workout, I don’t have to pull it over my head to take it off. The front close makes it very convenient and easy, and the strappy back is super sexy!

There have been a lot of technical advances in the bra industry over the years, (such as those with Cellophane straps that are supposed to look as if you’re not wearing them), but the maternity bra is still stuck in the 1940s.

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.

There was just this amazing individuality. It’s just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

I thought I’d have this fantastic bust and everyone would look at me and think I was amazing. After the operation I did feel fantastic: I’d put a bra on and I had a cleavage.

The best guys are the ones who were born in the ’60s. They are used to women being independent. They were brought up by mothers who were burning their bras and protesting.

Bras are like accessories to me.

I’ve never really wanted to do the bra top or booty shorts at festivals. I’d rather be cool, casual, and comfortable, and I like wearing outfits that I can also walk on the street with. In short, I don’t really dress differently at festivals.

I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I’m totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.

I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement – and if you’re over a certain age, you better keep your bra on because nothing’s worse than saggy duds.

Over the years, many young actors have approached me: Vusi Kunene, Sello Maake ka Ncube, and Seputla Sebogodi. They all said, ‘Hey Bra John, let’s do ‘The Island and we want you to direct.’ But somehow, my heart was not in it or I was busy with something else, so I’d say, ‘ja, ja, we’ll do it.’

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

When I was a youth, to be called ‘African’ was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I’m saying lyrics like, ‘I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,’ that was a big deal for me.

I couldn’t believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.

I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it’s about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that’s really wrong and really dangerous.

It’s rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn’t wear an uplift bra.

One boob was a 36B while the other was 36D – I’ve had big boobs since the sixth grade and walked around with double bras on for five years before getting surgery.

Every four weeks I go up a bra size… it’s worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes… sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

I am loving visible bras with shirts, high-waisted pants and oversize blazers.

I tweeted once that I was jealous of bands like All Time Low ’cause they get so many bras thrown at them. So, now fans throw bras with messages written in them.

In South Africa there are many women with a large chest. There you are not embarrassed when you visit a lingerie store to get a bra fitted.

Nothing shocks me anymore. I’ve embraced men in thongs, I’ve embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying ‘fierce.’

Maternity bras are the Alcatraz under-wear. If they were a door they’d have a mortise lock, a padlock and the rest.

You won’t find me in a sports bra and low-slung leggings.

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women’s clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn’t want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.

There was a point where I was leaving for California when I was 22. It was a tough decision to make because, at that time, my mother and father both ran a successful chain of women’s lingerie stores in metro Detroit. Two were called Bra World, and two were called Lulu’s Lingerie. They were great. They did well.

You will never catch me in a dress without a pair of Spanx and a bra.

I can’t change my bra size. They’re natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can’t change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It’s what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

I mean, as long as it doesn’t have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

I learned a lot about pain and suffering during ‘Pan Am.’ We had to wear very constricting period-correct girdles and bras. After that, I learned to read a script with an eye toward the undergarments.

I can’t just go out in a T-Shirt and say, ‘Hey, today I’m not wearing a bra.’

I wasn’t a bra burner, I’m not a political person. I saw there was an old-boys’ network, but my philosophy has always been to get over it, and move on.

I’m just glad that I’m the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna’s gonna have to find something else to do, ‘cos I don’t care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they’re still gonna look a little odd when she’s 55!

I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power.

I’ve worn a chainmail suit to swim with sharks, glided over Cirencester with a James Bond-style paramotor strapped to my back, eaten hippo steaks and had a bat dive down my bra. And all the while, I had to face the camera and smile.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

I love high-street fashion. I’m all about Topshop and Zara – even American Apparel. I love T-shirts and vests – simple things you can just live in. American Apparel also does the best bras – they’re amazing.

Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it was the chef himself to whom, early on in my cooking, I would make the most references. I don’t mean that I tried to cook like him. Rather, that I tried to think like him.

I think the T-Shirt bra is really special for Victoria’s Secret because it’s that kind of simple bra that you wear under the t-shirt, so it doesn’t have any lace or anything like that. So it’s very smooth; it’s very comfortable; it doesn’t have a lot of padding in it.

I have never kissed a woman, but Madonna in all her glory with coney bras and burgundy black ‘Vogue’ lips makes me rethink my heterosexuality.

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don’t do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.

I often go to bed in my birthday suit. But I like teddies and cute little undies that match. I like a sexy bra and panty set, or little shorts.

I have so many bras. I have so many, and then they get lost, and I look for a simple nude one to wear, and I can’t find one because there’s, like, lace and crazy colors that I never wear.

I can never find the right bras.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.