I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done ... I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream... “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

In the decades following her death Marilyn Monroe has often been cited as both a pop and a cultural icon as well as the quintessential American sex symbol. Family and early life

Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1 1926 in the Los Angeles County Hospital as Norma Jeane Mortenson (soon after changed to Baker) the third child born to Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe May 27 1902 – March 11 1984). Lyon did not like the name Norma Jeane and chose "Carole Lind" as a stage name after Carole Lombard and Jenny Lind but he soon decided it was not an appropriate choice.

In the decades following her death Marilyn Monroe has often been cited as both a pop and a cultural icon as well as the quintessential American sex symbol. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes Monroe began a career as a model which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox.