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It is not so easy to be a real woman. You are to be smart and stupid, strong and weak, beautiful and sexy. Is there anyone who combines all these features?! Marilyn Monroe was one of such women. She differed from women of her generation. She showed them how it’s great to be a woman, how to turn beauty, charm, coquetry into the strongest means for worlds conquest. She was beautiful, strong, independent, and ambitious. This lady hold all the world in her hands, but nothing and nobody could held her. She said about herself: “I knew I belonged to the public and to the world not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anyone or anything else.”
She was a woman who made herself. Marilyn, or as yet Norma Jeane, was a black sheep in her environment, she wanted qualitatively different lifestyle, and she got it. She was a model, a singer, an actress. All her characters in movies were frivolous beauties with strong the desire of love and money. Bat-eyed people believed that she was the same in life. But it wasn’t true. Marilyn was a very wise woman who left a great amount of deep thoughts that don’t lose its relevance even nowadays. Women all over the world use them as life credos. Here is one of them: “Beauty is imperfect, and where is genius - there is always a frenzy, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” And she wasn’t boring. Neither in her career, no in private life. All the movies with her participation, all her love stories became public and were full of rumors. Marilyn was an icon: she was talked about, she was admired. Women wanted to be like Marilyn, to look like Marilyn. Men dreamed about her. But, as it always happens, Marilyn became hostage of her own image. She wanted to play a significant role in a movie, but directors saw her only as a pretty-silly blonde with a sugar voice. She was loved by billions of men all over the world but hadn’t found her only one. And this is the tragedy of her life: she had
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everything and nothing at the same time. She stayed a black sheep for all her life, understood by nobody.
Marilyn Monroe is a legend that will never be forgotten. Musicians, artists, actresses, photographers copied the image of Marilyn Monroe, but there never be the second Marilyn. Her
Her life story can teach us not to be afraid of being different, to follow our inner sight, to find our own style of life but, with all of this, not to lose ourselves. Her next words illustrate all these:
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go; things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one, but yourself and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
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References
Barris, G. ( 2001). Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs.
Monroe, M. (2011). My Story: Illustrated Edition.
Taraborrelli, J. R., Taraborrelli, R. (2006). The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe.
