Marilyn Quotes

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn

“During World War II, a few years after Norma Jeane’s time in an orphanage, thousands of children were evacuated from the air raids and poor rations of London during the Blitz, and placed with volunteer families or group homes in the English countryside or even in other countries. It was only postwar studies comparing these children to others left behind that opened the eyes of many experts to the damage caused by emotional neglect. In spite of living in bombed-out ruins and constant fear of attack, the children who had been left with their mothers and families tended to fare better than those who had been evacuated to physical safety. Emotional security, continuity, a sense of being loved unconditionally for oneself—all those turn out to be as important to a child’s development as all but the most basic food and shelter.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don’t make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“Nearly all of the journalistic eulogies that followed Monroe’s death were written by men. So are almost all of the more than forty books that have been published about Monroe.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“she is still better known than most living movie stars, most world leaders, and most television personalities. The surprise is that she rarely has been taken seriously enough to ask why that is so.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“Marilyn supplied sex so that she would be allowed to work, but not so that she wouldn’t have to work.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“It’s even possible that Marilyn was found still breathing, rushed to Santa Monica Hospital by ambulance in an effort to save her, and returned to her own bed only after she was dead. There is some testimony to this on the part of ambulance drivers from a company that had transported Marilyn before. Anthony Summers reports the possibility that her unsuccessful rescuers could have been Robert Kennedy, or Peter Lawford, or both, responding in alarm to a last slurred phone call from Marilyn.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren’t written.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“childhood memories are prisms, not panes of glass. Details may loom large in the eyes of our smaller selves, while important events lie beyond our vision or understanding.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“I fell in love with myself—not how I was but how I was going to be.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“lack of self-confidence, a feeling of being unsuited to power, is the emotional training that helps to keep any less-than-equal group in its place.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“It’s even possible that Marilyn was found still breathing, rushed to Santa Monica Hospital by ambulance in an effort to save her, and returned to her own bed only after she was dead. There is some testimony to this on the part of ambulance drivers from a”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“Organized crime killed Marilyn Monroe. The idea was to frame and discredit the Kennedy administration, thus ending its drive against the Mafia, crime-controlled unions, and other parts of the crime syndicate. The FBI, CIA, or some right-wing group killed her, with the same motive of framing and discrediting the Kennedys. Why? Because they were too liberal. The Communist Party or other left-wing elements killed her in order to save Robert Kennedy from exposure—a theory of right-wing groups who opposed the Kennedys. The Kennedys killed her to avoid the public sex scandal she was threatening.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“a quote from The Little Prince: “True love is visible not to the eyes, but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“Emotional security, continuity, a sense of being loved unconditionally for oneself—all those turn out to be as important to a child’s development as all but the most basic food and shelter.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane

“the majority of all tranquilizer prescriptions are written for women.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jeane