Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe

By Orato Editor Heather Wallace
Date Posted: 05/28/08 Reader Rating:

"With fame you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself, for survival." - Marilyn Monroe, born June 1, 1926.

Ultimately Marilyn did not survive, though it's not known if how she felt about herself was behind her untimely death on August 5, 1962 at the age of 36. Her death was first classified as a probable suicide from acute barbiturate poisoning, though there are many conspiracy theories linking her passing to her alleged affairs with Robert and John F. Kennedy. Others claim it was simply an accident, with Marilyn falling victim to overprescribed pills and a penchant for champagne. It is not her death that matters now, but the light she left behind. Marilyn would be 82 this week.

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them." - Marilyn Monroe