it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?