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Marilyn Monroe quotes

1926–1962 · American actress

Monroe is the most misquoted woman on the internet; most of her "quotes" were written by other people decades after her death.

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2 famous lines credited to Marilyn Monroe that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

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Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Actually: Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, in an academic article (1976).

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If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Actually: No source exists from her lifetime; it appeared online in the 2000s.