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You're born naked. The rest is drag.

— RuPaul Misattributed

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Notes from Wikiquote

This quote is a paraphrase of a line by Tede Matthews in the 1977 documentary Word is Out. Matthews said "We're all born naked, and anything anybody wears at any time is drag."cite book

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