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Marilyn Monroe1926–1962

That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather it be sex than some of the things we’ve got symbols of… I hate to be a thing.

Marilyn Monroe on fame

Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40

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