"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
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Marilyn Monroe quotes (page 6 of 23)
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"Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??"
"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
"I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since."
"Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?"
"Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression."
"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered."
"When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health."
"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."
"The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home."
"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
"But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend."
"Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to."
"Couldn't we end this interview with 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 we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe."
"If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."
"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."
"Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?"
"I believe that everything happens for a reason."
"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."