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" With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up. "

Marilyn Monroe

Survival

Yourself

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Wear

" One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel. "

" I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. "

" 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. "

" I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. "

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Night

Alone

" Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. "

" I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen. "

" I like to feel blonde all over. "

Marilyn Monroe

Blonde

Feel

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Marilyn Monroe

Glamour

Beauty

" If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman. "

" If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein. "

" 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. "

" A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. "

" When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep. "

" A career is born in public - talent in privacy. "

" 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. "

Marilyn Monroe

Know

Men

" Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' "

Marilyn Monroe

Someone

Talent

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

Marilyn Monroe

I Am

Many

" We should all start to live before we get too old. "

" I've always wanted a baby. "

" 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. "

Marilyn Monroe

Mistakes

Best

" Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn. "

" How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. "

" I love a natural look in pictures. "

" A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. "

" It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. "