“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
— Marilyn Monroe
From Monroe's autobiography 'My Story', co-written with Ben Hecht, based on notes from 1954. Published posthumously in 1974.
I was six. Another foster home, another family that was not mine. I sat on the porch watching other kids play. That feeling of not belonging never left. Not when Fox signed me. Not when millions knew my name. The loneliness just got louder. But I found something in it. If you belong to no one, you can belong to everyone. Your ache to connect is not weakness. It is the most human thing about you.