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This reads as a definition of strength that avoids cruelty. It can be taken to mean that real confidence does not need to overpower someone who is emotionally open, but is better spent meeting the pressures and demands outside the relationship. In a strained romance, it lands as a reminder that tenderness is not a threat to masculinity.
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About Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model, active in the 1950s and early 1960s. She became known for comic blonde-bombshell roles and for her status as a major sex symbol of the period. She was a top-billed film star for a decade, and her screen image came to stand for the era's sexual revolution. By the time of her death in 1962, her films had grossed $200 million.
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Books by Marilyn Monroe
Fragments
2010