Marilyn Quotes

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

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

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?

I believe that everything happens for a reason.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.