“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.”
Born, Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe is perhaps one of the greatest pop icons to ever grace the American cultural landscape, but she’s known for all the wrong reasons. For being a dumb blonde in a handful of movies, for a mysterious death before ever being ready to go, for being a handful to work with because she had ambitions to be greater than men; all of these things are not what she should be known for. She was a woman with wit and intelligence. (I think the above quote points it out.) She had a fondness for the literary mind (she did marry two authors, one of which is perhaps the greatest American playwright Arthur Miller). She saw a limit and broke through it with the same grace as a ballet dancer. She was business savvy. She was timeless. It’s a shame we lost her before she was done.
Love her, and this is so true.
