I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

Marilyn Monroe
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Audrey Hepburn said this when asked if she was a feminist. She said that she didn't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. She believed that her beauty and femininity were ageless and couldn't be contrived. She believed that glamour, although the manufacturers wouldn't like this, couldn't be manufactured. Real glamour was based on femininity.

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