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 MONROEBeneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
More Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
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All girls are beautiful in their own way.
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If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
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The one thing a person wants most in life is usually something basic that money can’t buy.
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I restore myself when I’m alone.
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
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Keep it classy, never trashy, just a lil nasty.
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A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
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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.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
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You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
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Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
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Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
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Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
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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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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.
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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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If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.
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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?
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I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
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