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Bettie Page Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.”
— Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager's Beautiful Backsides
Tagged: Sex, Sex Is..., Bettie Page
“I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!”
— Bettie Page, The Little Vanilla Book
Tagged: Nudity, Swimming
“Young women say I helped them come out of their shells, and 13 rock groups have written songs about me.”
— Bettie Page, Pop Goes the Decade: The Fifties
Tagged: Young Women, Music
“It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me...that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.”
— Bettie Page, Who Killed the Pinup Queen?
Tagged: Young People, inspiration, Fans
“Six weeks into the marriage, on New Year's Eve 1959, I wanted to go dancing with him at a nightclub. He said he'd rather get drunk with his brothers.”
— Bettie Page, Voices -- Bettie Page, 1923- 2008
Tagged: New Year's Eve, Drinking, Dancing
“I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn’t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn’t think of myself as liberated, and I don’t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn’t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.”
— Bettie Page, Who Killed the Pinup Queen?
“I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.”
— Bettie Page, BETTIE PAGE QUEEN OF CURVES & BUNNY YEAGER WORLD’S PRETTIEST PHOTOGRAPHER | VINTAGESTYLE.eu
Tagged: Individual
“My mother nearly murdered me over that, then made me live with my father. So I couldn't review my exam notes, which were at home. Because of that, I got beat out of graduating valedictorian by a quarter of a grade point and lost my dream of getting a scholarship to attend Vanderbilt University. It was the worst disappointment of my life.”
— Bettie Page, Voices -- Bettie Page, 1923- 2008
Tagged: Murder, mother, Valedictorian, Vanderbilt University, Disappointment
“I don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to me. I was just modeling, thinking of as many different poses as possible. I made more money modeling than being a secretary. I had a lot of free time. You could go back to work after an absence of a few months. I couldn't do that as a secretary.”
— Bettie Page, Voices -- Bettie Page, 1923- 2008
Tagged: Modeling, Money
“All I ever wanted was a mother who paid attention to me. She didn't want girls. She thought we were trouble. She didn't help with homework or teach me to sew or cook. She didn't go to the school plays I was in or go to my high school graduation. When I started menstruating at 13, I thought I was dying because she never taught me anything about that.”
— Bettie Page, Voices -- Bettie Page, 1923- 2008
Tagged: menstruation, mothers, gender roles
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