Norma Jean Dougherty before Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control at times and hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they go right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart, so that better things can fall together.

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife….I guess I am a fantasy.

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.

Norma Jean Dougherty / Marilyn Monroe

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

All quotes by Marilyn Monroe
Photography by Earl Moran

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12 Responses to “Norma Jean Dougherty before Marilyn Monroe”

  1. Shinji says:

    Do you have them in color? I have also collected some pics of Marilyn, when she was 19. But there are also very nice.

  2. BehindBlueEyes says:

    She was a national treasure to me, Thanks…

  3. sheila says:

    hon var fantastisk, aldrig ska det finnas någon som henne.

  4. Linnea says:

    älskade citaten, hon var en vacker och vis kvinna, min hund är döpt efter henne =)

  5. S says:

    jag hade ingen aning om att hon var så ..vis,( eller vad man säger xP). Jag gillar citaten - mycket :)

  6. lady coveted says:

    wow… she's so amazing

  7. Teres says:

    Du vet att hon hatade de där fotografierna va?

  8. Cissi says:

    gud så fina bilder! fatta vacker hon va och klok!tack!

  9. baby loonia says:

    å så underbar vacker hon är. Älskade första citate, amen to that !

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