Marcy Borders -"The dust lady".

Marcy Borders (died August 24, 2015) was a bank clerk, who worked in the World Trade Center and survived its collapse, following al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001.Stan Honda, a photographer for Agence France Presse, captured an image of Borders, completely covered in dust from the building collapse, that subsequently became widely described as "iconic". The image became so well-known and so widely distributed, that Borders became known as "the dust lady".

Borders had only been working at the World Trade Center for four weeks prior to the attack.According to the "The Routledge Companion to UK Counter-Terrorism", Borders said that she never recovered from the trauma of the attack. Depression led to a break-up from her partner, losing custody of her children, and several addictions.

Borders said that a key event in her recovery and return to sobriety was learning of the death of Osama bin Laden.

Borders had preserved the outfit she wore in the iconic photo, without removing any of the dust.The image Honda took of Borders was iconic; she was remembered in many retrospective articles about the attacks of 9/11.The Telegraph chose her as one of the survivors they profiled on the tenth anniversary of the attack. Borders had been invited to spend the tenth anniversary of 9/11 at a memorial event in Germany.Borders was diagnosed with stomach cancer in August 2014.

Borders's cancer had already saddled her with a crippling debt of $190,000—even though she had not yet received surgery and she still needed additional chemotherapy. Borders said she could not even afford to get her prescriptions filled.

Borders died from cancer on August 24, 2015. She believed her cancer was triggered by the toxic dust she was exposed to when the WTC collapsed. Her death was very widely reported.Borders and Sharbat Gula are the two main characters of Pamela Booker's 2009 play "Dust: Murmurs and a play". Both Borders and Gula first became known to the public through iconic photos. Booker dedicated her play to Borders and Gula.