Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
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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.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Marilyn MonroeExperts 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 …
I love a natural look in pictures.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
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.
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.
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.
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If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
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.
I think I have always had a little humor.
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
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.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
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.
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfa…
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
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.
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 …
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?