People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
— Marilyn Monroe
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• Source: Wikiquote: "Marilyn Monroe" (Quotes, On Being Blonde (2007):
Quotes of Monroe from On Being Blonde : Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes (2004) by Paula Munier)
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Name: Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot trailer cropped
Description: Cropped screenshot of Marilyn Monroe from the trailer for the film Some Like It Hot
Date: 1959
Source: Some Like It Hot trailer
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