All little girls should be told they are pretty.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.