Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Favorite quotes by Marilyn Monroe.
I adore Marilyn Monroe, not because she's successful and a sex symbol, but because she's human, imperfect, and not afraid to show it.

♥I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times I'm hard to handle. but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

♥ I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

♥ A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left

♥ It's all make believe, isn't it?

♥ Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature

♥ No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

♥ I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

♥ Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

♥ The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't

♥Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

♥ Dogs never bite me. Just humans

♥ People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one

♥ I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.