#marilyn

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#i #kill #marilyn #marilyn monroe #monroe

The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness. ↗

— Dita Von Teese

#brigitte-bardot #burlesque #curvy-corset-cuties #marilyn-monroe #p-

Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#her #i #i love #love #marilyn

I believe this: You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you fight. you cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#life #marilyn-monroe #sad #self-esteem #strength

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#courage

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. ↗

— Clifford Odets

#depression #marilyn-monroe #suicide #death

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#act #bag #became #because #between

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. ↗

— Jule Styne

#friends

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#men #my-story #respect #men

Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her. ↗

— Molly Haskell

#women #movies