Marilyn Monroe

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

""Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.""

- Marilyn Monroe

"The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone—so far."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?"

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfections are beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sisters make the best friends in the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"“If you can’t handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”"

- Marilyn Monroe

"“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”"

- 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."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Women who want to be equal with men are not ambitious."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection."

- Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I like to feel blonde all over."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Friends accept you the way you are."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."

- Marilyn Monroe

"What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I am alone; I am always alone no matter what."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."

- Marilyn Monroe

"We should all start to live before we get too old."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Dogs never bite me - just humans."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A smart girl leaves before she is left."

- Marilyn Monroe

"One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I defy gravity."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You know, most people really don't know me."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!"

- Marilyn Monroe

"Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."

- Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."

- 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 becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?"

- 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."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else."

- Marilyn Monroe

"To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly."

- Marilyn Monroe

"This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I love to do the things the censors won't pass."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The ones that stay with you through everything—they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer."

- Marilyn Monroe

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A smile is the best makeup any girl can wear."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."

- Marilyn Monroe

"“The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfection Is Beauty Madness Is Genius"

- Marilyn Monroe

"“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”"

- Marilyn Monroe

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about"

- Marilyn Monroe

"A sweater is like life; you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it!"

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A career is born in public – talent in privacy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You're not single because you couldn't keep a man, you're single because you couldn't keep a boy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

""It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.""

- Marilyn Monroe

"I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"We are all stars and we deserve to twinkle."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Darling, you are magic, and so is your beauty."

- Marilyn Monroe

"We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

- Marilyn Monroe

"your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person ."

- Marilyn Monroe