3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Black men don’t like to be called ‘boys,’ but women accept being called ‘girls.’
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe 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.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Monroe If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
