The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe Quotes

“Monroe was a real woman who made difficult choices; they may not all have been exemplary; they may not all have been consistent. The inability to categorize or determine her motives is not a sign of her abnormality—it's a sign of her normality. Monroe was not a fictional character, and thus to judge her on the basis of whether her actions were always ideal effaces an important truth about the way in which women have always had to strike difficult bargains with patriarchy, and measures her by anachronistic and rigid standards.”
― Sarah Churchwell, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe