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Marilyn Monroe

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About Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by her death in 1962.

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Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone…
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of m…
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn M…
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 di…

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Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
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.
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
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 …
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.
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.
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.