“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.”
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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
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“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
― Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Her Photographs
― Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Her Photographs
“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
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