The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them... so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As one young starlet asked, with annoyance and pretension, "What has Marilyn got? And how can I get it?" A large part of the answe...r lies in Miss Monroe's attitude toward herself. Along with her very evident feminine charms goes a genuine delight in being sexually attractive--an attitude that makes attractiveness seem as natural as sunlight. No amount of connections and calculated exploitation of beauty could achieve the same effect. Miss Kelly is a symbol in a very different way. The heroines she plays take the sexual initiative in a remarkably overt way, but always as perfectly proper young ladies. It is as if a not-nice girl, when in love, would behave otherwise and no well-bred wife would act otherwise toward her husband. Female interest in physical love becomes respectable and proper, as if no one had ever thought it vulgar and immodest in a good woman. The nice girl as coquette or flirt is archaic and coy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe I was young and "cute" (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coat...s on chemists, they all look alike!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art and... the art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry--yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »