“I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour cannot be manufactured. I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, like everything else.”
~ Marilyn Monroe to Richard Meryman for Life magazine

Photograph:   Ed Feingersh, March 1955, NYC