Marilyn Monroe1926–1962Ever notice that ‘what the hell’ is always the right decision?
I dont mind living in a mans world as long as I can be a woman in it.
- Handwritten note responding to a question about posing nude, as quoted in International Herald Tribune (5 October 1984)
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
On Being Blonde (2007), p. 53The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.
My Story (1974; co-written with Ben Hecht; 2007 edition), p. 133- Comment on fame, quoted in Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1993) by Carl E. Rollyson, and in Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men (2006) by Orrin Edgar Klapp
- Telegram, turning down a party invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy (13 June 1962)
- Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
