No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her. — Marilyn Monroe

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano––and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe

A smart girl leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same. — Marilyn Monroe

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important–you know — Marilyn Monroe

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world. — Marilyn Monroe

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t. — 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

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. — 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

Don’t you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn’t marry a girl just because she’s pretty, but my goodness, doesn’t it help? — 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

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl. — Marilyn Monroe

A girl should be like a butterfly. Pretty to see, hard to catch. — Marilyn Monroe

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world. — Marilyn Monroe

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. — Marilyn Monroe

Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world. — Marilyn Monroe

I don’t want to play sex roles any more. I’m tired of being known as the girl with the shape. — Marilyn Monroe

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry. — Marilyn Monroe

I think I made his back feel better. — Marilyn Monroe

You must feel attractive to be attractive. — Marilyn Monroe

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me. — Marilyn Monroe

People respect you because they feel you’ve survived hard times and endured, and although you’ve become famous, you haven’t become phony. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

I’m personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over. — Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. — Marilyn Monroe

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can’t be myself, what’s the good of being anything at all? — Marilyn Monroe

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever. — Marilyn Monroe

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever. — Marilyn Monroe

That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed. — Marilyn Monroe

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence. — Marilyn Monroe

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise. — Marilyn Monroe

It’s all make believe, isn’t it? — Marilyn Monroe

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? — Marilyn Monroe

You better believe when the conversation is getting shorter with you… it’s getting longer with someone else. — Marilyn Monroe

I believe in everything–a little bit. — Marilyn Monroe

I believe that everything happens for a reason. — Marilyn Monroe

People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Frankly, I don’t. — Marilyn Monroe

Promises are worse than lies. You don’t just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember? — Marilyn Monroe

I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn’t know how to hate how to hate they wouldn’t know how to love. — Marilyn Monroe

Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to. — Marilyn Monroe

I love to do the things the censors won’t pass. — Marilyn Monroe

If you don’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe

I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love. — Marilyn Monroe

No sex is wrong, if there’s love in it. — Marilyn Monroe

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world. — Marilyn Monroe

I think to love bravely is the best and accept–as much as one can bear. — Marilyn Monroe

Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left. — Marilyn Monroe

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you. — Marilyn Monroe

I love a natural look in pictures. — Marilyn Monroe

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word ‘love’ itself already died and went away. — Marilyn Monroe

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. — Marilyn Monroe

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. — 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

I think that love and work are the only things that really happen to us. — 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

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star. — Marilyn Monroe

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did. — Marilyn Monroe

Everyone’s a star and deserves the right to twinkle. — Marilyn Monroe

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. — Marilyn Monroe

It was my fans who made me a star. — Marilyn Monroe

Ever since I became a movie star,I’ve been really weird. — Marilyn Monroe

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one. — Marilyn Monroe

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle. — Marilyn Monroe

You can’t sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way. — Marilyn Monroe

I’m going to be a great movie star some day. — Marilyn Monroe

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it. — Marilyn Monroe

It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it! — Marilyn Monroe

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. — Marilyn Monroe

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

In spite of everything life is not without hope. — Marilyn Monroe

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it. — Marilyn Monroe

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can’t buy. — Marilyn Monroe

The happiest time of my life is now. — Marilyn Monroe

That’s the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. — Marilyn Monroe

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived. — 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. — Marilyn Monroe

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life. — Marilyn Monroe

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. — Marilyn Monroe

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life–like the color of your eyes. — Marilyn Monroe

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression. — Marilyn Monroe

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! — Marilyn Monroe

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. — Marilyn Monroe

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman? — Marilyn Monroe

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. — Marilyn Monroe

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. — Marilyn Monroe

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. — Marilyn Monroe

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen. — Marilyn Monroe

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot! — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you’re a woman, but loose enough to show you’re a lady. — 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

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent. — Marilyn Monroe

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

Enjoy the fact that you’re a woman and men will enjoy it too. — Marilyn Monroe

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. — Marilyn Monroe

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire. — Marilyn Monroe

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women. — Marilyn Monroe

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow. — Marilyn Monroe

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings. — Marilyn Monroe

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture. — Marilyn Monroe