I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clo...
BETTY SMITH From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t...
BETTY SMITH Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagi...
BETTY SMITH She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'di...
BETTY SMITH Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time ...
BETTY SMITH Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
BETTY SMITH Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on ...
BETTY SMITH You should have heard him 10 minutes ago.
BETTY SMITH (Donations) slow down during the summer. I've only been here since the first of the year, but it has...
BETTY SMITH We've used a lot of stuff since the Can-Care-A-Van. We go through pork and beans and green beans and...
BETTY SMITH Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. L...
BETTY SMITH From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t...
BETTY SMITH I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, y...
BETTY SMITH Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes...
BETTY SMITH One of Francie's favorite stores was the one which sold nothing but tea, coffee, and spices. It was ...
BETTY SMITH Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had abo...
BETTY SMITH Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. ...
BETTY SMITH She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it...
BETTY SMITH And the child, Francie Nolan, was of all the Rommelys and all the Nolans. She had the violent weakne...
BETTY SMITH And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don'...
BETTY SMITH Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immort...
BETTY SMITH They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
BETTY SMITH There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
BETTY SMITH It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and he...
BETTY SMITH She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the b...
BETTY SMITH Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; le...
BETTY SMITH People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and ...
BETTY SMITH Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time.
BETTY SMITH Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grati...
BETTY SMITH But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. ...
BETTY SMITH Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She...
BETTY SMITH Say something," demanded Fancie. "Why don't you say something?"
"What can I say?"
"Say tha...
BETTY SMITH The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
BETTY SMITH Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death i...
BETTY SMITH Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secr...
BETTY SMITH ...May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. ...
BETTY SMITH She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the b...
BETTY SMITH We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of ...
BETTY SMITH To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is...
BETTY SMITH A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having...
BETTY SMITH In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in characte...
BETTY SMITH As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a...
BETTY SMITH A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.

A story was something yo...
BETTY SMITH And always, there was the magic of learning things.
BETTY SMITH Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the t...
BETTY SMITH It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and he...
BETTY SMITH If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because the...
BETTY SMITH I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to ...
BETTY SMITH Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
BETTY SMITH Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even ...
BETTY SMITH I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you...
BETTY SMITH Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
BETTY SMITH Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuf...
BETTY SMITH Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it."

Francie wished adults wo...
BETTY SMITH She wasn't satisfied by the play she saw the following Saturday either. All right. The long lost lov...
BETTY SMITH They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were al...
BETTY SMITH They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were a...
BETTY SMITH (Donations) slow down during the summer. I've only been here since the first of the year, but it has...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clo...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) I think we are very close to being ready.
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) She has finished college classes and graduated and got her life together. She has helped others get ...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the ric...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) We've used a lot of stuff since the Can-Care-A-Van. We go through pork and beans and green beans and...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. L...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) I can't save the world, but this is one chance for something good to happen to children.
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) You should have heard him 10 minutes ago.
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its s...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER) Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.
BETTY HILL Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. ...
BETTY FRIEDAN I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most ...
BETTY GILPIN When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can ...
BETTY FORD I have learned so much personally from wrestling, and it has really bled into my daily life.
BETTY GILPIN No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
BETTY FRIEDAN Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vag...
BETTY WHITE The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, wi...
BETTY GRABLE Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
BETTY FRIEDAN Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equip...
BETTY ROLLIN It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominanc...
BETTY FRIEDAN Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were al...
BETTY FRIEDAN It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
BETTY FRIEDAN Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
BETTY BENDER The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange sti...
BETTY FRIEDAN The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was s...
BETTY FRIEDAN A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of...
BETTY FRIEDAN Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mys...
BETTY FRIEDAN The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan yo...
BETTY FRIEDAN We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
BETTY WHITE Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
BETTY FRIEDAN Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
BETTY FRIEDAN It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and mus...
BETTY BUCKLEY A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of...
BETTY FRIEDAN 15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
BETTY HILL Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.
BETTY HILL The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
BETTY FRIEDAN I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it mad...
BETTY FORD I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was ta...
BETTY SHABAZZ I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I'...
BETTY FIELD I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
BETTY WHITE We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. W...
BETTY FRIEDAN Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mys...
BETTY FRIEDAN Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselv...
BETTY FRIEDAN I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
BETTY WILLIAMS I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do...
BETTY FORD Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.
BETTY WHITE I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.
BETTY WHITE I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
BETTY WHITE When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, bu...
BETTY WHITE My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without ...
BETTY WHITE I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds lik...
BETTY WHITE Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
BETTY WHITE Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
BETTY WHITE I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've...
BETTY WHITE I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.
BETTY WHITE Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I...
BETTY WHITE Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing o...
BETTY WHITE I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who...
BETTY WHITE Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives...
BETTY WHITE I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That...
BETTY WHITE Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them bet...
BETTY WHITE I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people ...
BETTY WHITE You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
BETTY WHITE If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side,...
BETTY WHITE It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself ...
BETTY WHITE I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they...
BETTY GILPIN I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan ...
BETTY WHITE If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a p...
BETTY WHITE Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're bl...
BETTY WHITE They kept telling us they needed office supplies, so we just started doing that instead. Over the ye...
BETTY WILLIAMS There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.
BETTY WILLIAMS Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.
BETTY WILLIAMS That could've been disastrous. Normally they would be in that classroom, except today.
BETTY WILLIAMS God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless...
BETTY WILLIAMS We have 2,290 more people in the work force this March than we did a year ago.
BETTY WILLIAMS I feel a women's role has got to be a gentle role and perhaps if we can do it correctly, the men wou...
BETTY WILLIAMS Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equate...
BETTY WILLIAMS It's gonna be a great thing. They do wonderful work helping people. We'll have a lot of celebrating ...
BETTY WILLIAMS There are four stages of wellness, ... The first is when you are sick, the second, when you are not ...
BETTY SIEGEL Atlanta's fast growing business market and diverse population provide the ideal location for this ve...
BETTY SIEGEL Global Learning for Engaged Citizenship.
BETTY SIEGEL There's a whole energy . . . that extends out into the evening,
BETTY SIEGEL A lot of these are drug related, but until we get to the root of the problem, in fact, we don't know...
BETTY SCHWAB There's been approximately 11 or 12 within the last month in the German Village area.
BETTY SCHWAB He became violent and hit the teller with a closed fist and bound the teller as well.
BETTY SCHWAB He had a gun, came around the corner and demanded the teller give him the cash, and as for the safe,...
BETTY SCHWAB Anyone that hits anything, you would know that you've hit something. You need to stop and at least c...
BETTY SCHWAB We are working very hard at collecting any kind of evidence and looking at places that we probably n...
BETTY SCHWAB I couldn't figure out if she was a robot or a real person! It's fascinating.
BETTY ROGERS Being a farmer is not just what he does. It's who he is.
BETTY ROGERS There was a dead-end street when I got married. It was quiet, peaceful and there were no factories.
BETTY ROGERS I think it's great. It's just such a riot.
BETTY ROGERS Over a 20-year period, we have seen the stock market go up and down, and when it's up, we've seen it...
BETTY NOSTDAHL What keeps the club together is that we are set on a format already proven to be a logical way to ru...
BETTY NOSTDAHL All members look to see what stocks we could be interested in adding. The financial partner contacts...
BETTY NOSTDAHL We do special things to celebrate the club. We go places to eat, and we celebrated our 10th annivers...
BETTY NOSTDAHL The doctor said that he may come out with a Big Mac in his mouth.
BETTY MONTGOMERY [Law-enforcement officials are among the biggest supporters of the legislation.] For generations, mo...
BETTY MONTGOMERY This is a 50-50 state, ... We are a crossroads state and very diverse. We've never really elected an...
BETTY MONTGOMERY As with any crime, we can't completely control whether we become a victim,
BETTY MONTGOMERY Everybody's over here to make money for themselves.
BETTY HILL And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, st...
BETTY HILL And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.
BETTY HILL And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
BETTY HILL And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, ...
BETTY HILL And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one...
BETTY HILL Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.
BETTY HILL A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.
BETTY HILL 15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
BETTY HILL This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville. I'm thankful for the c...
BETTY HARRISON This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville, ... I'm thankful for t...
BETTY HARRISON Because the world has gone this way, we would be foolish not to give our kids access to these machin...
BETTY HARRISON I have no evidence anyone is doing any more substantial research because they're on the Internet tha...
BETTY HARRISON You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tigh...
BETTY GRABLE With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
BETTY GRABLE The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.
BETTY GRABLE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
BETTY GRABLE There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
BETTY GRABLE The glorification of the ""'woman's role,"" then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance ...
BETTY FRIEDAN Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were al...
BETTY FRIEDAN Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength
BETTY FRIEDAN When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy bei...
BETTY FRIEDAN The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
BETTY FORD My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle...
BETTY FORD It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you have...
BETTY FORD It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old....
BETTY FORD Have a nice trip, Dick.
BETTY FORD The process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the...
BETTY FORD If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to ...
BETTY DODSON If we all talked honestly about what's really happening in our sex lives, we'd realise that we're al...
BETTY DODSON