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Quotes About Perception

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.
~ 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
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
~ 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
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
~ 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
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
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it
~ Marilyn Monroe
Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel
~ Marilyn Monroe
There are always two sides to every story.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
to know reality (or things as they are than to have not to know and to have few illusions as possible— train my will now
~ Marilyn Monroe
All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Whenever men appeared in breast stories, they were usually on the receiving, rather than the giving end.
~ Marilyn Yalom
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
~ Marilynne Robinson
These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
~ Marilynne Robinson