Zitat des Tages von Marilyn Monroe:
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
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.
I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind.
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
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'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Dogs never bite me - just humans.
A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.