Mary > Mary's Quotes

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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

“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”
― 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, Marilyn