happy birthday, marilyn!

I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.




We are all of us stars and we all deserve to twinkle.




I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.




What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?




Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.

Today would have been Marilyn Monroe's 84th birthday! This is my favorite of her photoshoots. I think it reveals a different side to her than the one that made her famous. It's a brave and vulnerable side, very free and uninhibited, and her spirit shines right through her, right through the photographs. This is how I like to remember her.

(Pictures from M-Monroe.org.)