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Marilyn Monroe quote attribution notes
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If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best.No secure Monroe source established in the cited evidence; the exact internet-era circulation is later than Monroe's lifetime.misattributed
Well-behaved women rarely make history.1976, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, title of a scholarly essay.
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