Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

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

"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one."

"Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak."

"A career is wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night."

"If I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of."

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

"I've tried to change my ways, but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."

"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife."

"The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it."

"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."

"At 12 I looked like a girl of 17. My body was developed and shapely. But no one knew this but me. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided."