More from Bettie Page
Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.
Bettie PageBettie Page 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 PageBettie Page After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!
Bettie PageBettie Page 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 PageBettie Page I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.
Bettie PageBettie Page Sex is a part of love. You shouldn’t go around doing it unless you are in love.
Bettie PageBettie Page I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude.
Bettie PageBettie Page 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 PageBettie Page The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn’t pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos.
Bettie PageBettie Page 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 PageBettie Page
Original quotes
From our community writers
In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
Meet the writers
More on doors
It’s an exciting life. I don’t know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.
Barbara MandrellBarbara Mandrell I’m the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.
Jenny McCarthyJenny McCarthy To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
Bayard TaylorBayard Taylor I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
Baal Shem TovBaal Shem Tov Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Oh, this coming back to an empty house,’ Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People – though perhaps it was only women – seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.
Barbara PymBarbara Pym Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
Barbara KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
