Marilyn Monroe Quotes

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."

"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."

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

"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."

"Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had."

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

"I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous."

"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."

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

"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."

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

"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."

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."

"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."

"Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary."

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

"A smart girl leaves before she is left."

"I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane."

"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."

"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

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

"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."