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Marilyn Monroe quotes

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“husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by just touching your head or smiling into your eyes—or by just staring into space.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“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, My Story
“I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“You might as well try to make yourself fly as to make yourself love.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Men sometimes 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.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children—lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I have noticed since that men usually leave married women alone, and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“In fact my popularity seemed almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of a 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.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.'” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I am invariably late for appointments—sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong—and too pleasing.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Nudity and sex are the most commonplace things in the world. Yet people often act as if they were things that existed only on Mars.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story

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