One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Taken at face value, the remark frames womanhood not as a limitation but as a formative advantage—something to be claimed with pride rather than endured. It reads as a rebuttal to mid‑century assumptions that a woman’s value is derivative of men’s approval: the speaker asserts that being female is itself a “best thing,” and then generalizes the stance into an aspirational norm (“all females should feel”). In the context of Monroe’s public image—often reduced to a sexualized persona—the sentiment also functions as self-definition: a refusal to let femininity be equated with weakness or shame, and an insistence that confidence in one’s gender identity can be a source of strength.