About Marilyn Monroe: Marilyn Monroe is considered one of the most important popular culture icons of the twentieth century.
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
I read poetry to save time.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
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.
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.
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.
I love a natural look in pictures.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
