#marilyn monroe reading books

[tygerland]

Marilyn Monroe 1955, by Eve Arnold.

[gatabella]

Marilyn Monroe’s library contained over 400 books and her love of reading is well documented (she was also married to the playwright Arthur Miller). Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and On the Road by Jack Kerouac were two of her most beloved novels. (x)

[happyheidi]

Marilyn Monroe + Borzoi’s <3 and more 🐕

[literaryvein]

L. V., collecting pieces of the sky (pt. 9: someone we loved more than ourselves)

[maddymoreau]

You know the F/O brain rot is STRONG when they have you researching topics you never once cared about.

Proship DNI

[vintage-tigre]

[solitairethoughts1]

this is how September feels and you can’t tell me otherwise.

[poppletonink]

Blair Waldorf Reads

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

What Would Audrey Do by Pamela Clarke Keogh

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

Grace Kelly by Hourly History

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

My Story by Marilyn Monroe

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers

This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt

Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given

How To Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way Of Life by Melissa Hellstern

Why Men Love Bitches by Sherry Argov

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... reading is sexy ...

Marilyn Monroe reading 'Ulysses' by James Joyce, 1954

📸 Eve Arnold

[saintvintagearchived]

[hereilayinadeadmansjacket]

[roseingenue]

1…2…3…4. One and four, the curse is set

The curse has begun, the curse has been put, the curse is in action

The curse is molding, decaying, darkening

You don’t know you’ve been cursed long ago? You have been cursed in the womb

You were a cursed seed

You were never meant to be one

I’m a sin

Simply made to be a sin

A sin of my father, a sin of his father, and his, and his, and his father

I’m not one, I’m a sin

What I’ve been told victimized by the male race

Victimized by the atrocities my father committed against women

I’m a product of those sinful atrocities

Sinned by my father, sinned by his father, and his, and his, and his father

“Forced to demise by Eve’s sin” One said

1…2…3…4…5…6…7. One and seven, the ripest I’ll ever be

A sweet for the male race

A flower, a flower look at me

Look at how ripe I am, I’m so ripe

Come, come taste my mesocarp, come smell my petals

Give me my value

I’m sweet, beautiful, young, the ripest I’ll ever be

I fear, I fear, I fear to lose my value

Once I decay I’m gone, irrelevant, undesired

My value is of my shell

My shell, my shell, my outer shell

I’ll never be more than my shell

What is my shell? What am I?

Am I not a product of humanity? No! I’m a shell

I’m a shell meant to be destroyed, meant to be devoured, cursed, used, abused

I’m merely a shell

I am not, not a shell

I am not, not a sin

I will not be demised for my father

I will live

I live

I live for Cleopatra

I live for Anne

I live for them

I live for Marie

I live for Marilyn

I live for Sylvia

I live for Diana

I live for my mother

I will not be a product of the atrocities of men

I am my own, I am sole, I am a soul

I free myself of the curse

I free myself of the sins

I devote myself to women

I was made for women

I was made by women

Made by their souls, made by their strength, their nurture, their emotion

I am made for women

I, I am a woman

Original By: Rose Ingénue

[gatabella]

Marilyn Monroe reads a copy of Irving Shulman's novel The Big Brokers at a bookstore on Sunset Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, 1953

[singwhenyoucantspeak]

people need to stop fancasting white women as Evelyn Hugo. like... the fact that she was not white was, in fact, a pretty big part of her character perspective and motivations.

[sylviasangel]

Hiii!

I'll propably just share my thoughts and opinions. My thoughts are a mess, so please don't be rude. If you don't want to say something nice, don't say anything! If you want to chat, we can! I'll try to help you, sweets.

Also don't be disguting (pervy 'n stuff).

[cherryybond]

Marilyn Monroe reading books from her personal liabrary