„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 just hate to be a thing.“

— Marilyn Monroe

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„A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.“
— Marilyn Monroe
„A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.“
— Marilyn Monroe
„Sex and art are the same thing.“
— Pablo Picasso
„To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.“
— Stephen King
„People have curious attitudes about nudity just as they have about sex. Nudity and sex are the most commonplace things in the world. Yet people often act as if they were things that only existed on Mars.“
— Marilyn Monroe
„I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.“
— George Burns
„I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.“
— Marilyn Monroe