If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
Quote by Marilyn Monroe
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If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
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Marilyn Monroe Quotes
- 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.
- I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
- If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
- Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
- My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.
- 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.
- When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
- Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
- 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.
- What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
Best Quotes
- The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
- Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
- But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
- More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
- You don't kill your way to peace.
- I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.