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Bettie Page Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“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
“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
“Young women say I helped them come out of their shells, and 13 rock groups have written songs about me. One song has these lyrics all the way through, ‘I love Bettie Page. I love Bettie Page. I love Bettie Page.’”
— Bettie Page, Voices -- Bettie Page, 1923- 2008
Tagged: Rock Groups, Young Women, Music
“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
“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
“For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.”
— Bettie Page, Bettie Page: Queen of the Fifties pin-ups who became a cult figure
Tagged: Hugh Hefner, Nashville, Playboy Magazine, Obituaries, News
“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
“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
“I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought of going to a nudist colony.”
— Bettie Page, The Practicality of Bettie Page, In Her Own Words
Tagged: Nudity, nude
“Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!”
— Bettie Page, Voices -- Bettie Page, 1923- 2008
Tagged: Nudity, God, Adam And Eve, Garden of Eden
“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
“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
“I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.”
— Bettie Page, Who Killed the Pinup Queen?
Tagged: Fashion
“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?
“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
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