self-discovery Quotes

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.