I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.
MARILYN MONROEIf there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.
More Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
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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.
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Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
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I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
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I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
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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.
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The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
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Love is rare, love is strange, nothing lasts and people change.
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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.
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I read poetry to save time.
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I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
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You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
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I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
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It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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