“Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.”
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Famous Marilyn Monroe Quotes
“Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.”
“I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.”
“I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.”
“I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.”
“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”
“Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.”
“Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.”
“I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.”
“In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.”
“I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.”
“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”
“In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.”
Source: My Story
“When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.”
“Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
Source: My Story
“What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?”
“When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.”
“When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.”
Source: My Story
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
Source: My Story