798 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

A photographer once told me that my two best points are between my waist and my neck.

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 wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.

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

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

You would think all other women kept their bodies in vaults.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.