Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

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

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

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

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

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

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

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

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

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

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

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.