Marilyn Nelson quote: "One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me."

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite f...
MARILYN NELSON

I did not have to learn to love you: You were chosen for me. I knew that the first time I saw you. MARILYN NELSON

Our family foundation decided we'd make a significant contribution and be a co-founder.
MARILYN CARLSON NELSON

This is an exciting opportunity to talk about creating a united front against this 21st century slav...
MARILYN CARLSON NELSON

We're delighted to unveil our exciting new vision for - in fact, our ongoing commitment to - luxury ...
MARILYN CARLSON NELSON

I remember wanting ice skates for some reason and got ice skates from the Gold Bond Stamps.
MARILYN CARLSON NELSON

a strategic decision to align ourselves with the global traveler.
MARILYN CARLSON NELSON

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
MARILYN MONROE

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to ackn...
MARILYN MANSON

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
MARILYN MANSON

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like ...
MARILYN MANSON

Art gives people a reason to be alive.
MARILYN MANSON

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to dist...
MARILYN MANSON

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in...
MARILYN MANSON

Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to ...
MARILYN MANSON

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to conve...
MARILYN MANSON

I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.
MARILYN MANSON

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on lo...
MARILYN MANSON

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
MARILYN MANSON

If you lose who you are, what do you have?
MARILYN MANSON

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
MARILYN MANSON

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because w...
MARILYN MANSON

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fi...
MARILYN MONROE

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've ...
MARILYN MONROE

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.
MARILYN MANSON

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds th...
MARILYN FRENCH

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important ...
MARILYN HACKER

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunitie...
MARILYN FERGUSON

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest...
MARILYN MANSON

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wi...
MARILYN MONROE

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanth...
MARILYN MANSON

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about ...
MARILYN MANSON

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ...
MARILYN MANSON

A smart girl leaves before she is left.
MARILYN MONROE

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
MARILYN MONROE

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself ...
MARILYN MONROE

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
MARILYN MONROE

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

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
MARILYN MONROE

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. lik...
MARILYN MONROE

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit...
MARILYN MONROE

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it w...
MARILYN MONROE

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
MARILYN MONROE

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. Sh...
MARILYN MONROE

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never comple...
MARILYN MONROE

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened...
MARILYN MONROE

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
MARILYN MONROE

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
MARILYN MONROE

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
MARILYN MONROE

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn&...
MARILYN MONROE

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way,...
MARILYN MONROE

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

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feel...
MARILYN MONROE

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and w...
MARILYN MONROE

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
MARILYN MONROE

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't...
MARILYN MONROE

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
MARILYN MONROE

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
MARILYN MONROE

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him t...
MARILYN MONROE

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
MARILYN MONROE

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
MARILYN MONROE

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
MARILYN MONROE

Friends accept you the way you are.
MARILYN MONROE

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
MARILYN MONROE

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive m...
MARILYN MONROE

We should all start to live before we get too old.
MARILYN MONROE

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
MARILYN MONROE

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

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
MARILYN MONROE

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
MARILYN MONROE

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absol...
MARILYN MONROE

I don't digest things with my mind.
MARILYN MONROE

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
MARILYN MONROE

I like to feel blonde all over.
MARILYN MONROE

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
MARILYN MONROE

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
MARILYN MONROE

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

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
MARILYN MONROE

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

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
MARILYN MONROE

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
MARILYN MONROE

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about m...
MARILYN MONROE

It's all make believe, isn't it?
MARILYN MONROE

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick ...
MARILYN MONROE

You know, most people really don't know me.
MARILYN MONROE

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
MARILYN MONROE

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females...
MARILYN MONROE

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
MARILYN MONROE

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
MARILYN MONROE

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up...
MARILYN MONROE

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our opennes...
MARILYN FERGUSON

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
MARILYN MONROE

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
MARILYN MONROE

We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
MARILYN FERGUSON

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to ...
MARILYN FRENCH

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but magnified the ...
MARILYN FRENCH

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religi...
MARILYN MANSON

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, &...
MARILYN MONROE

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi...
MARILYN MONROE

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
MARILYN MONROE

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid ...
MARILYN FRENCH

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
MARILYN MANSON

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re...
MARILYN MANSON

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
MARILYN MONROE

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've exper...
MARILYN MONROE

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

No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl
MARILYN MONROE

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
MARILYN MONROE

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I...
MARILYN MONROE

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, ...
MARILYN MONROE

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
MARILYN MONROE

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
MARILYN MONROE

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, thing...
MARILYN MONROE

I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan,...
MARILYN MANSON

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
MARILYN MONROE

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
MARILYN MONROE

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
MARILYN MONROE

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or j...
MARILYN MONROE

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

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night
MARILYN MONROE

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this na...
MARILYN MONROE

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.
MARILYN MONROE

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and c...
MARILYN MONROE

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so...
MARILYN MONROE

It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
MARILYN MONROE

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal t...
MARILYN MONROE

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and wh...
MARILYN MONROE

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady
MARILYN MONROE

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
MARILYN MONROE

When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you trea...
MARILYN MONROE

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting ...
MARILYN MONROE

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
MARILYN MONROE

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
MARILYN MONROE

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your...
MARILYN MANSON

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutel...
MARILYN MONROE

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
MARILYN MONROE

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with wome...
MARILYN FRENCH

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to...
MARILYN FERGUSON

To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolt...
MARILYN FRENCH

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
MARILYN FERGUSON

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to...
MARILYN FRENCH

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times har...
MARILYN MONROE

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she has...
MARILYN MONROE

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolute...
MARILYN MONROE

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to f...
MARILYN FRENCH

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So...
MARILYN MONROE

A place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
MARILYN MONROE

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bothe...
MARILYN HORNE

What nearly everybody in my life
MARILYN MANSON

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, becau...
MARILYN FERGUSON

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
MARILYN FERGUSON

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of th...
MARILYN FERGUSON

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
MARILYN MONROE

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
MARILYN MONROE

I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
MARILYN MONROE

Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging ...
MARILYN MONROE

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn'...
MARILYN MONROE

A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
MARILYN MONROE

A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE

A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
MARILYN MANSON

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting al...
MARILYN MONROE

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, becau...
MARILYN FERGUSON

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling pass...
MARILYN MONROE

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
MARILYN MONROE

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so...
MARILYN MONROE

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good...
MARILYN MANSON

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'...
MARILYN MONROE

I don't follow anybody. I just flip through whatever Instagram sends me. I like to keep my algor...
MARILYN MINTER

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it'...
MARILYN MANSON

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, bu...
MARILYN MANSON

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laborat...
MARILYN FERGUSON

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy...
MARILYN MONROE

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
MARILYN MONROE

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for you...
MARILYN MONROE

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sittin...
MARILYN MONROE

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasti...
MARILYN MONROE

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
MARILYN HACKER

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
MARILYN MANSON

Dogs never bite me - just humans.
MARILYN MONROE

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

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I g...
MARILYN MONROE

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
MARILYN FRENCH

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of c...
MARILYN MANSON

Music is the strongest form of magic.
MARILYN MANSON

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
MARILYN MANSON

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.
MARILYN MANSON

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
MARILYN MONROE

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square ...
MARILYN MONROE

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - ...
MARILYN MONROE

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed ...
MARILYN MANSON

Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good...
MARILYN FERGUSON

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturer...
MARILYN MONROE

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few rema...
MARILYN MONROE

I restore myself when I'm alone.
MARILYN MONROE

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
MARILYN MONROE

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength again...
MARILYN MONROE

One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

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Marilyn Nelson

One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

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