No One Really Knew Her
Despite her public persona as the quintessential “dumb blonde” character, Marilyn Monroe possessed a deep love for literature and had a vast library in her home containing over 400 books. She cherished reading and once claimed that she could grasp the entire plot of a book by skimming just ten pages.
This facet of her personality was often overlooked, and it speaks to the misconception that surrounded her; as feminist biographer Oline Eaton noted, “The power of the phrase ‘Marilyn Monroe reading’ lies in its application to Monroe and in our assumption that she wouldn’t know how.”
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