Quotables 17 April 2024: Marilyn Monroe reflecting on absurdity versus mundanity, genuine commitments versus deceit, the unjust perception of lesser intellect by bloody fools, and married women

Marilyn Monroe before she was 'Marilyn', circa 1946. Photo: Joseph Jasgur

‘If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best’.

‘It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring’.

‘Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope’.

‘I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't’.

‘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’.

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