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

Marilyn Monroe

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

Marilyn Monroe

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

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

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

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 used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

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

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I’m working on the foundation.

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

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

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

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

Marilyn Monroe

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

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

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

Marilyn Monroe

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Marilyn Monroe

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

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

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

Marilyn Monroe

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Marilyn Monroe