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" What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? "

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" All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.' "

" Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. "

" What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. "

" 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. "

" Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. "

" I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. "

" I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing. "

" I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times 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. "

" Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. "

" Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living. "

" Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. "

" I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. "

" Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. "

" A smart girl leaves before she is left. "

" I am alone; I am always alone no matter what. "

" There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. "

" 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. "

" It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired. "

" I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. "

" It's all make believe, isn't it? "

" Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world. "

" A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. "

" I restore myself when I'm alone. "

" I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. "

" A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself. "

" I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. "

" The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space. "

" I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay! "

" 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!' "