Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Quote by Marilyn Monroe
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Marilyn Monroe Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
- Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
Best Quotes
- In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
- The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
- The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
- Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
- Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
- My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.
- Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
- We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.