"Talent is developed in privacy." The best thoughts emanate from the least expected of sources and the element of surprise triumphs the value of the thought itself.
Goethe said this originally, in another form. American actress and famous sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe made this thought into her own and re-expressed it in the above form.
Marilyn Monroe, revamping Goethe's thoughts! That is a bombshell of a surprise, as Jacqueline Rose, suggests in her wonderful uncovering of the "real" Monroe.
But Rose's piece does not aim at surprising readers. On the other hand, she wants to re-acquaint the world with the woman behind the image, a woman who was thoughtful and educated herself constantly, in private, had affinities with the most un-Marilynesque of things.
She adored Abraham Lincoln during McCarthyism, when Lincoln had become an anathema (believe it or not, he was perceived as a "Communist" being an "equal rights"-for-all guy); she was in favor of granting civil rights to blacks and was one of the few white actresses who was liked by blacks of the time. She read copiously, even though she didn't have the opportunity for formal education.
Monroe was a thoughtful woman and gravitated to men who didn't pay attention to her body, but to her mind. Thus she married Arthur Miller...
All in all Marilyn was a thoughtful woman according to Rose who wishes that she were known more through the books she read and the politics she believed in, rather than through the undergarments and the costume jewelry she wore.
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