Rest in Peace Bettie Page

Dec 11, 2008 20:12

April 22, 1923 - December 11, 2008
While I'm not really into the whole pin-up thing I think Bettie Page was an amazingly free and liberated woman in a time when liberation was far from the minds of the general populous, at least as far as women were concerned. And yet, that was not what she set out to do - it was who she was.
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mayugerobo_74 December 12 2008, 07:59:06 UTC
Such a bizarre thing for her to finally be found and coming to peace. Her influence is iconographic. But as long as she lived to see her days as her true self dictated, she will be immortal. RIP.

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road_rage_bunny December 12 2008, 09:51:56 UTC
damn! she was 85 years old, a life to be celebrated for sure

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