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→‎Real Life: clarified and corrected Shaw example ''and'' the Marilyn Monroe-Einstein subexample
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Some myths say [[Alexander the Great]] was courted by the Queen of the Amazons for just such a purpose - considering him the [[All Amazons Want Hercules|only man worthy]] of fathering her child.
* There is a famousstory andthat almostfamous certainlydancer apocryphaland storyfree thatspirit a[[w:Isadora societyDuncan|Isadora Duncan]] beautyonce suggested [[George Bernard Shaw]] marry her, saying "Our children would have my looks and your brains." Shaw allegedly replied, "But what if they had my looks and your brains?" There'sWhile alsothe astory variantfirst ofappeared thatin storya thatbiography swapsof Shaw, forit's [[Albertalmost Einstein]]certainly apocryphal. The ShawThanks to the vagaries of oral transmission, the story is oftensometimes also attributed to actress Sarah Bernhardt (who was ''far'' closer in age to Shaw than to Einstein and whose reasons for meeting a playwright likeslike Shaw should be obvious). Furthermore, Shaw is reported as saying something to the effect of "Oh no, I've just blown a definite shag!" upon realizing what he had done. (Shaw was, of course, notorious for his inability to resist a witticism).)
** There's also a variant of that story that swaps Shaw for [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Marilyn Monroe]] for Duncan, but there's even less evidence for it than for the Shaw version. (However, Marilyn's former roommate, actress [[Shelley Winters]], noted in her 1980 autobiography that Marilyn had counted Einstein among the famous men she would like to sleep with -- and then added that among her possessions at her death was an autographed photograph of Einstein inscribed "To Marilyn, I am forever grateful!")
 
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