Marilyn Monroe

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

“I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm 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.”

“I am alone I am always alone no matter what.”

“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

“Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.”

“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.”

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

“I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.”

“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.”

“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”

“I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.”

“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

“Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.”

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”

“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.”

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

“Fame will go by and, 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.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”