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A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and

A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.

Marilyn Monroe
Lying, Curves, Numbers

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

Marilyn Monroe
Lying, Believe, Promise

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

Marilyn Monroe
Inspiring, Lying, Mean
Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

Marilyn Monroe
Inspiring, Lying, People
Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

Marilyn Monroe
Children, Lying, People
Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.17, Rowman & Littlefield

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