Bettie Page Quotes

#1. After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!

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#2. I think you can do your own thing as long as you're not hurting anybody else--that's been my philosophy ever since I was a little girl.

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#3. 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.

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#4. I was never the girl next door.

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#5. My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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!

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#9. I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

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#10. I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!

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#11. Young women say I helped them come out of their shells

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#12. Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

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#13. I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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