She not only married but she divorced seven times (third husband Mike Todd died in a plane crash), yet she held her head high and kept looking for the love she deserved. Camille Paglia called her a “pre-feminist” in a Salon varsity jackets online interview based on her embracing of the sexual command over her male counterparts. I don’t exactly agree with that reasoning, but I do believe that Elizabeth Taylor felt herself every bit as equal to those male counterparts and she did what she wanted regardless of the conventions of her gender at the time. She wasn’t trying to be a spokesperson for feminism, yet by doing so, she was.“I find it very difficult to allow my whole life to rest on the existence of another creature. I find it equally difficult, because of my innate arrogance, to believe in the idea of love. There is no such thing, I say to myself. There is lust, of course, and usage, and jealousy, and desire and spent powers, but no such thing as the idiocy of love. Who invented that concept? I have wracked my shabby shop online 2011brains and can find no answer.”She was an alcoholic and she was married eight times. She and Burton were condemned by the Vatican for“erotic vagrancy.” It sounds like it was all very glamorous debauchery, but of course, it was at the time probably just as outrageous and unbecoming as Britney Spears’ and Lindsay Lohan’s breakdowns.She wasn’t simply an actress, nor was she just a sex symbol. She wasn’t only some friend of Michael Jackson who had been married a ton of times. And she wasn’t only the namesake of Charlotte York’s dog on “Sex and the City.”Elizabeth Taylor was an icon, and not many would contest that. Not only was she an onscreen sensation since the age of 12, when she landed a role in “National Velvet,” but she probably got a lot more varsity jacketsattention for her off-screen life. In fact, I feel guilty even writing this because I have only seen a few of her movies yet I know all about her love affair with Richard Burton which would make even the most cynical, unromantic person feel simultaneously touched and heartbroken. He wrote to her in a letter:
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