If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
— Marilyn Monroe
Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?
I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
I defy gravity.
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
I want the world to see my body.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
I love a natural look in pictures.
Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.
A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
A smart girl leaves before she is left.
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
