Marilyn Monroe
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9 quotes we’ve traced to Marilyn Monroe
“That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing”
Verified“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul”
Attributed“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy”
Attributed“It's not quite true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on”
Attributed“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself”
Disputed“But suppose the child inherited my beauty and your brains?”
Disputed“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best”
Disputed“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring”
Disputed“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly”
DisputedNot actually Marilyn Monroe
Often misattributed to Marilyn Monroe
Famous lines widely pinned on Marilyn Monroe that we’ve traced to someone else.
“A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered”
actually Clara Bow
“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself”
Unknown — falsely credited to Marilyn Monroe
“But suppose the child inherited my beauty and your brains?”
actually Unknown
“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world”
actually Bette Midler
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best”
actually Unknown
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring”
actually Unknown
“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly”
actually Unknown (modern internet aphorism)
“Well-behaved women rarely make history”
actually Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
On the research bench
Commonly pinned on Marilyn Monroe — under review
1 line flagged as pinned on Marilyn Monroe and queued for a full source trace — not yet verified.
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