#marilyn

The difference between Marilyn’s and Jayne’s approach to intellectual pursuits is that Marilyn carried big heavy books around and hung out with brainy people to absorb their intellect, while Jayne really had a thirst for knowledge. Jayne was very proud of the fact that if she like something enough she would commit it to memory. At that time, The Satanic Bible was still in monograph form, and Jayne had pored over those pages until she knew most of it by heart...Marilyn gave me a copy of Stendhal’s On Love, and I still have a copy of Walter Benton’s This is My Beloved, which we bought together on Sunset Boulevard. Marilyn turned me on to it—wanted me to read it and write something in it for her. I got as far as writing her name in it, but I ended up with the book. It meant a lot to me during a particularly dark period in my life after I left L.A. Jayne kept insisting I read The Story of O and I, Jan Cremer. She gave me a dog-eared copy of each. It seems a distinctly feminine trait to want to share books with people they care deeply about. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#jan-cremer #jayne-mansfield #marilyn-monroe #on-love #pauline-réage

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that. ↗

— Kim Novak

#because #expectations #free #get #helpful

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. ↗

— Gary Numan

#come #does #early #electronic #entrenched

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. ↗

— Clifford Odets

#alone #always #did #down #first

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode. ↗

— Lee Grant

#i #marilyn #maxwell #mode #think

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#glamorous #her #i #like #love

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#i #kill #marilyn #marilyn monroe #monroe

The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness. ↗

— Dita Von Teese

#brigitte-bardot #burlesque #curvy-corset-cuties #marilyn-monroe #p-

Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#her #i #i love #love #marilyn

I believe this: You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you fight. you cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#life #marilyn-monroe #sad #self-esteem #strength