The BOLD, BEAUTIFUL and INTELLIGENT – Thy name is Marilyn!!!

Hey friends ! I am back again after the short break once again. I need to take these breaks time and again so as to feed my mind with something interesting to be able to pen down.

This blogpost is dedicated to the intelligent, beautiful, iconic Marilyn Monroe who was more than just a sex symbol.  The post is also dedicated to all those wonderful women out there who paved their way to a successful career/ homemaker and who are still striving to do so. 

My daughter of 19 yrs asked me just 2 days back “Amma you have posted something about Marilyn Monroe”- I said Yes, I liked the quote, so I posted it.

To be frank, I did not even know that Marilyn was her screen name. She was Norma Jean Mortenson in real.  I had just read few of her quotes, but there was this urge to read more about her and her life.  There was and there will always be something eerily beautiful about her( in every way).

Her quotes made me THINK, that she was not the typical dumb blond which men normally thought a woman to be.  This is why I wanted to delve deeper to find out about this blond bombshell (this is how she was nicknamed) who was not only beautiful but was intelligent.  Before entering into my quest of who this wonderful person was, all I knew was that she was sexy, sassy and everything that a man would want her woman to be.  But I was wrong.  She had a man’s courage and determination to prove that she could drive her wheels all by herself even during that dogmatic period when there was still a lot of taboo on women even in the so called “Western World”.

I am not quite sure whether she was mentally strong or not because her death remains a mystery to many amongst us, though the reports state otherwise. 

Marilyn was a woman with more than one talents (apart from her bedroom talents) if I may say so, she was poetic and the willingness to excel in whatever she did was something that drove her from being an ordinary person to her role on the silver screen. If I could quote, one of her closest friends stated that if  she was dumb, she would have been happier, but she was someone who was intelligent, thanks to her love for reading and the vast library that she had.

Every thought and emotion comes out as an outburst of her deepest feelings and emotions. If one could read between the lines, it will truly depict and express that she was more human, caring and she wanted someone to care for her.  She loved her womanliness and expressed it with all her heart and body.  When I read her biography,

I could understand that she wanted a family, kids, someone to care for her. Yes, there were men who made her feel like a woman (she loved that completely and basked in that glory), but somewhere the desire to be loved for who she really was surpassed this mere physical instinct.

She had a tough childhood and this quote of hers is inspiring.  It is something that parents should tell their kids :

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

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I cannot describe Marilyn in 500 words for sure, but I will definitely want to write more about her. There have been stalwart writers who have written wonderfully about her, but I will want to pen down something for this beautiful and HUMANLY icon (if I may define her).

Luv and blessings always!!

Rekha