Variant: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
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“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”
Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
Telegram, turning down a party invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy (13 June 1962)
Last words to Peter Lawford (5 August 1962), as quoted at Spiegel Online http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html
Variant: Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
“I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!”
As quoted in a letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, in 1961. Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
Context: The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
“I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 41
“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
Variant: It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
As quoted in TIME magazine when "asked if she really had nothing on in the photograph [for a 1949 calendar]" ("Something for the Boys." Time 60, no. 6 (August 11, 1952): 90)
Variant: I had the radio on.