Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‘Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,’ and then they say, ‘Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!’

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

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.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

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.