Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

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.

I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.