Betty Quotes

#1. When I grow up and know that I am going to have a baby, I will remember to walk proud and slow.. #Quote by Betty Smith

#2. Did he suggest taking you for a walk in the moonlight?"
"How did you know?"
Virginia sighed. "That's what he does. I think it's a kind of challenge for him-to see if he can get young women to let him steal a kiss. If he succeeds..." She trailed off with a frown.
"If he succeeds, then what?" Celia prodded.
"Frankly, I'm not sure. That's as far as the girls ever get in complaining to me about him. First, they tell me he kissed them and it was like communing on some 'ethereal plane.'" She snorted. "Then they protest that they were sure he loved them. And then they start crying. It all goes downhill from there."
"You don't think he actually-"
"No!" She chewed on her lip. "That is, I don't think so. It's hard to know with Pierce. He's so unpredictable." Her gaze met Celia's. "But I'd hate to think of him getting you off alone and attempting-"
"You needn't worry about that," Celia said. "That's what I have Betty for."
"Betty?"
Celia reached into her reticule and pulled out her ladies' pocket pistol.
Virginia leapt back. "Oh, my word! Does your family know you carry that around?"
"I doubt it. I don't think they'd approve."
"I should say not!" Virginia surveyed it curiously. "Is it loaded?"
"Only with powder. There's no ball."
"Thank heaven for that. Still, aren't you worried it will go off by itself?"
"No. It has two protections to keep it from firing accidentally. I made sure of that when I purchased it." Sh #Quote by Sabrina Jeffries

#3. On Becoming a Poet in the 1950s"

There was love and there was trees.
Either you could stay inside and probe your emotions
or you could go outside and keenly observe nature.
Describe the sheen on carapaces,
the effect of breeze on grass.

What's the fag doing now? Dad would say.
Picking the nose of his heart?
Wanking off on a daffodil?

He's not homosexual, Mom would retort, using her apron as a potholder to
remove the apple brown betty from the oven.
He's sensitive. He cares.
He wishes to impart values and standards to an indifferent world.

Wow! said Dad, stomping off to the pantry for another scotch. Two poets in
the family. Ain't I a lucky duck?

As fate would have it, I became one of your tweedy English teachers, what
Dad would call a daffodil-wanker,
and Mom ended up doing needlepoint, seventy-two kneelers for St. Fred's
before she expired of the heart broken on the afternoon that Dad
roared off with the Hell's Angels.
We heard a little from Big Sur. A beard. Tattoos. A girlfriend named Strawberry.
A boyfriend named Thor.
Bars and pot and coffeehouses, stuff like that.

After years of quotation by younger poets, admiration but no real notice,
Dad is making the anthologies now.
Critics cite his primal rage, the way he nails Winnetka. #Quote by Stephen Beal

#4. Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country. #Quote by Karen DeCrow

#5. I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important. #Quote by Betty Who

#6. Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight
that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers."
It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night. #Quote by Jerry Spinelli

#7. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel. #Quote by Betty Smith

#8. I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial. #Quote by Betty Ford

#9. We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.' #Quote by Betty Friedan

#10. If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions. #Quote by Grant Achatz

#11. Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted. #Quote by Betty White

#12. For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows ... the voice follows everything about you ... who you are.' #Quote by Betty Buckley

#13. When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!' #Quote by Betty White

#14. I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#15. Maybe," thought Francie, "she doesn't love me as much as she loves Neeley. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. #Quote by Betty Smith

#16. Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren't the person whose crap is hanging out for everyone to see. #Quote by Carrie Jones

#17. Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#18. Yeah, sorry for not being all Betty Bad Ass; fighting isn't exactly a requirement for jazz singers. #Quote by J.L. Vallance

#19. I will not speak falsely and say to you: 'Do not grieve for me when I go.' I have loved my children and tried to be a good mother and it is right that my children grieve for me. But let your grief be gentle and brief. And let resignation creep into it. Know that I shall be happy. I shall see face to face the great saints I have loved all my life. #Quote by Betty Smith

#20. New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say
it's the most wonderful city in the world. #Quote by Betty Smith

#21. You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label]. #Quote by Betty Wright

#22. An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree. #Quote by Betty Smith

#23. Francie always remembered what the kind teacher told her. 'You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up.'
It was the best advice Francie ever got. Truth and fancy were so mixed up in her mind
as they are in the mind of every lonely child
that she didn't know which was which. #Quote by Betty Smith

#24. Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, ... #Quote by Betty Eadie

#25. Harriet grinned at Betty Armstrong, hearing the familiar academic wrangle begin. Before ten minutes had passed, somebody had introduced the word "values." An hour later they were still at it. Finally the Bursar was heard to quote: "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." "Oh, bother!" cried the Dean. "Do let's keep mathematics out of it. And physics. I cannot cope with them. #Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

#26. I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring. #Quote by Betty White

#27. Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. #Quote by Betty Smith

#28. When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially. I am thankful for everything I have spiritually. I thank God for allowing me to experience these things, even the experiences that may not seem so positive, such as developing an illness. I may not understand why I have the illness, but I sense that it is there for a purpose, and so I thank God for it. I ask Him to allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness so that I can see the good that comes from everything. #Quote by Betty Eadie

#29. The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings. #Quote by Betty Eadie

#30. The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body. #Quote by Betty Dodson

#31. Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives. #Quote by Betty Dodson

#32. I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then ... while I was single ... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation. #Quote by Betty Hill

#33. Do you hear that, Francie? You're in college! 'oh gosh, I feel sick. #Quote by Betty Smith

#34. My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic? #Quote by Betty Ford

#35. But from an early age, I had been taught that being needed was the same as being loved. #Quote by Betty Marvin

#36. I'm blessed with learning easily. I've always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I'll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks. #Quote by Betty White

#37. We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold. #Quote by Betty Okino

#38. The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals. #Quote by Betty Sue Flowers

#39. Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison. #Quote by Henry Handel Richardson

#40. She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said,
"You have a bad case, a very bad case."
"Of what?"
"Growing up. #Quote by Betty Smith

#41. I think Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America. #Quote by Robert Pattinson

#42. I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal.
Lazy Mary #Quote by Bel Kaufman

#43. But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery. #Quote by Betty Ford

#44. The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#45. The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#46. Look natural, that is the best way. Flowers, plants, and animals are all content with how they look - satisfied with nature's endowment. Only human beings are eager to change what nature has given them. #Quote by Betty Jamie Chung

#47. People looking up at her
at her smooth pretty vivacious face
had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind. #Quote by Betty Smith

#48. We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it? #Quote by Betty White

#49. With increasing skill, the ads glorify her "role" as an American housewife-knowing that her very lack of identity in that role will make her fall for whatever they are selling. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#50. Vodka is kind of a hobby. #Quote by Betty White

#51. Engaged," he said bitterly. "Everybody's engaged. Everybody in a small town is engaged or married or in trouble. There's nothing else to do in a small town. You go to school. You start walking home with a girl
maybe for no other reason than that she lives out your way. You grow up. She invites you to parties at her home. You go to other parties
eople ask you to bring her along; you're expected to take her home. Soon no one else takes her out. Everybody thinks she's your girl and then ... well, if you don't take her around, you feel like a heel. And then, because there's nothing else to do, you marry. And it works out all right if she's a decent girl (and most of the time she is) and you're a halfway decent fellow. No great passion but a kind of affectionate contentment. And then children come along and you give them the great love you kind of miss in each other. And the children gain in the long run. #Quote by Betty Smith

#52. Betty ran to the door in time to see a handsome young man dashing through the rain toward the house beside her daughter, both of them in pants embroidered with sea creatures - blue whales on his yellow pants, pink lobsters on her ill-fitting brick red pants - and matching pastel green cotton sweaters. When did Miranda buy such odd clothes? She imagined the two of them spotting eachother somewhere, kindred spirits, and starting up a conversation about their shared hobby of Extreme Wasp Attire. #Quote by Cathleen Schine

#53. The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do. #Quote by Betty Williams

#54. As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed. #Quote by Betty Smith

#55. Betty had her crocheting out again. The morning light winked off her needles and Olivia recognized that she was making a baby blanket. #Quote by Ellery Adams

#56. Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. #Quote by Betty Smith

#57. When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea. #Quote by Betty White

#58. He stroked the filly's neck, and she sniffed at the pouch on his belt, then turned her head away.
"She wants to let me know she doesn't care that I've apples in here.No, doesn't matter a bit to her." He looped the line around the fence and took an apple and his knife from his pocket. Idly he cut it in half. "Maybe I'll just offer this token to this other pretty lady here."
He held out the apple to Keeley, and Betty gave him a solid rap with her head that rammed him into the fence. "Now she wants my attention. Would you like some of this then?"
He shifted, held the apple out. Betty nipped it from his palm with dignified delicacy. "She loves me."
"She loves your apples," Keeley commented.
"Oh,it's not just that. See here." Before Keeley could evade-could think to-he cupped a hand at the back of her neck, pulled her close and rubbed his lips provocatively over hers.
Betty huffed out a breath and butted him.
"You see?" Brian let his teeth graze lightly before he released Keeley. "Jealous.She doesn't care to have me give affection to another woman."
"Next time kiss her and save yourself a bruise."
"It was worth it.On both counts."
"Horses are more easily charmed than women, Donnelly." She plucked the apple out of his hand, bit in. "I just like your apples," she told him, and strolled away.
"That one's as contrary as you are." He nuzzled Betty's cheek as he watched Keeley walk to her stables. "What is it that makes me find c #Quote by Nora Roberts

#59. Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. #Quote by Betty Smith

#60. [W]e can only do what we are able to do at any given time and under a single set of circumstances, and we must not feel unsuccessful in any one attempt. The opportunity will rise again to do something else, and the courage to act will rise with it. #Quote by Betty Reid Soskin

#61. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar. #Quote by Betty Smith

#62. One thing you can't do to a fan is change their heart about somebody. #Quote by Betty Wright

#63. So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these ... mixed feelings that we had. #Quote by Betty Hill

#64. When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track. #Quote by Betty Wright

#65. God often does the extraordinary through the ordinary.It seems that his Mysteries are revealed more fully through the simple and trusting hearts that walk with him every day. #Quote by Betty Malz

#66. If I open this envelope fifty years from now, I will be again as I am now and there will be no being old for me. There's a long, long time yet before fifty years ... millions of hours of time. But one hour has gone already since I sat here ... one hour less to live ... one hour gone away from all the hours of my life. #Quote by Betty Smith

#67. Awful things happen to an awful lot of us & it's a happy moment when you start noticing some kind of payoff. Cancer survivors for ex, notice that they're breathing in a way other people don't. And because they are breathing they are grateful in a way a lot of people aren't. And grateful is a good place to wind up in life. It beats poor me. #Quote by Betty Rollins

#68. ¨Who'd ever guess,¨ said Francie, ¨looking at the outside of him, that he was so different inside?¨ #Quote by Betty Smith

#69. There was a special Nolan idea about the coffee. It was their one great luxury. Mama made a big potful each morning and reheated it for dinner and supper and it got stronger as the day wore on. It was an awful lot of water and very little coffee but mama put a lump of chicory in it which made it taste strong and bitter. Each one was allowed three cups a day with milk. Other times you could help yourself to a cup of black coffee anytime you felt like it. Sometimes when you had nothing at all and it was raining and you were alone in the flat, it was wonderful to know that you could have something even though it was only a cup of black and bitter coffee.
Neeley and Francie loved coffee but seldom drank it. Today, as usual, Neeley let his coffee stand black and ate his condensed milk spread on bread. He sipped a little of the black coffee for the sake of formality. Mama poured out Francie's coffee and put the milk in it even though she knew that the child wouldn't drink it. #Quote by Betty Smith

#70. If she never had any lovers, she kicks herself around when the change comes, thinking of all the fun she could have had, didn't have, and now can't have. If she had a lot of lovers, she argues herself into believing that she did wrong and she's sorry now. She carries on that way because she knows that soon all her woman-ness will be lost…lost. And if she makes believe being with a man was never any good in the first place, she can get comfort out of her change. #Quote by Betty Smith

#71. I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be happy. #Quote by Betty Hutton

#72. There was a Sears, Roebuck catalogue painfully twisted and shellacked and tied with a red cord. The white card beneath it said, An inexpensive doorstop." ... There were catsup bottles made into bud vases, closthespins decorated with crepe paper butterflies for use as curtin hold-backers, crocheted bags for silverware, bouquets of crepe paper and velvet flowers, an enormous funeral set piece of white organdy gardenias and dark green oilcloth leaves with REST IN PEACE spelled out in white pipe cleaners, embroidered pictures, burned wood match boxes, and fancy pillows by the hundreds. The pillows embraced every sentiment from FRANKY AND JOHNNY WERE LOVERS in black beads on a cerise satin background to the Twenty-Third Psalm in white on black velvet. It was an impressive exhibit of what loneliness can do to people. #Quote by Betty McDonald

#73. There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you. #Quote by Betty Wright

#74. When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial? #Quote by Becki Newton

#75. I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#76. Talon snorted down at Tre. "Wow. That's almost genius, Betty. Got anything else for us before we head out?"

Tre reached out and shoved Talon's shoulder. "Quit calling me Betty. So what if I like to bake. I don't see you turning down my red velvet cupcakes, asshole. #Quote by Gayle Donnelly

#77. Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tenderness in her, so much of wanting to give of herself to whoever needed what she had, whether it was her money, her time, the clothes off her back, her pity, her understanding, her friendship or her companionship and love. She was mother to everything that came her way. She loved men, yes. She loved women too, and old people and especially children. How she loved children! She loved loved the down-and-outers. She wanted to make everybody happy. She had tried to seduce the good priest who heard her infrequent confessions because she felt sorry for him. She thought he was missing the greatest joy on earth by being committed to a life of celibacy.
She loved all the scratching curs on the street and wept for the gaunt scavenging cats who slunk around Brooklyn corners with their sides swollen looking for a hole in which they might bring forth their young. She loved the sooty sparrows and thought that the very grass that grew in the lots was beautiful. She picked bouquets of white clover in the lots believing they were the most beautiful flowers God ever made...Yes, she listened to everybody's troubles but no one listened to hers. But that was right because Sissy was a giver and never a taker. #Quote by Betty Smith

#78. Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do. #Quote by Betty White

#79. Nancy grabbed Plum's hand and together they ran around the last curve and then they were leaning against the old stone wall that marked Lookout Hill. Far, far down below them, a river was trying to wriggle its way out of a steep canyon. Over to the right, thick green hills crowded close to each other to share one filmy white cloud. To the left, as far as they could see the land flowed into valleys that shaded from a pale watery green, through lime, emerald, jade, leaf, forest to a dark, dark, bluish-green, almost black. The rivers were like inky lines, the ponds like ink blots. #Quote by Betty MacDonald

#80. I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. #Quote by Betty Greene

#81. I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton. #Quote by Betty Hutton

#82. Next caller. Betty, you're on the air. What's your question ?"
"Hi, Kitty. I just wanted to know, are you going out with that Cormac guy from last month?"
My jaw dropped. "What?"
"Are you going out with that Cormac guy?"
"We are talking about the same Cormac who tried to kill me on the air, yes? the guy who hunts werewolves for a living ?"
"Uh-huh."
"And you want to know if I'm dating him ? Why on earth do you think that's a good idea? #Quote by Carrie Vaughn

#83. A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice. #Quote by Betty Ford

#84. Don't hate on Betty Crocker," Cam warned him. #Quote by J. Lynn

#85. I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life
in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful
is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us. #Quote by Betty Smith

#86. I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo. #Quote by Betty White

#87. It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first. #Quote by Betty Smith

#88. I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean any_thing to some people, and I just don't get that! After all, if you just read the Bible plainly, it tells you everything. From Creation, to the Flood, to Jesus. I can't see how you can come to the conclusion, there is no God. #Quote by Betty Cuthbert

#89. But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again. #Quote by Betty Smith

#90. Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America! #Quote by Betty Dodson

#91. The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom. #Quote by Betty White

#92. Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle. #Quote by Russell J. Rickford

#93. Now there was some motivation to get over this problem quickly. Chloe was a notorious betty.On the rare occasion when she graced the slopes with her prescence, boys zoomed toward her because she was so cute in her pink snowsuit,then zoomed away again as she lost control and threatened to crash into them.
She'd made the local snowboarding news a few years ago when she lost control at the bottom of the main run, boarded right through the open door of the ski lodge,skidded to a stop at the entrance to the cafe,and asked for a table for one. #Quote by Jennifer Echols

#94. Our spirit knows when we are on the right path. When we make a decision that we feel good about, we receive it as energy that propels us along a particular path...Our passion is the energy through which we serve our purpose. When we serve our purpose, we feel our passion. By following our passion, we will tap into the energy God gives us to serve our purpose. #Quote by Betty J. Eadie

#95. I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#96. I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#97. Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. In the feminine mystique, there is no other way for a woman to dream of creation or of the future. There is no other way she can even dream about herself, except as her children's mother, her husband's wife. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#98. My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it. #Quote by Betty Who

#99. _Sunday!_ In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all of the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest #Quote by Betty MacDonald

#100. We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization, because they have never grown to full humanity themselves. If the mother is at fault, why isn't it time to break the pattern by urging all these Sleeping Beauties to grow up and live their own lives? There never will be enough Prince Charmings or enough therapists to break that pattern now. It is society's job, and finally that of each woman alone. For it is not the strength of the mothers that is at fault but their weakness, their passive childlike dependency and immaturity that is mistaken for "femininity." Our society forces boys, insofar as it can, to grow up, to endure the pains of growth, to educate themselves to work, to move on. Why aren't girls forced to grow up - to achieve somehow the core of self that will end the unnecessary dilemma, the mistaken choice between femaleness and humanness that is implied in the feminine mystique? #Quote by Betty Friedan

#101. It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#102. I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl. #Quote by Betty Grable

#103. In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue #Quote by Betty Williams

#104. Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you ... and respect yourself. #Quote by Betty Shabazz

#105. It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt. #Quote by Betty Smith

#106. There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives. #Quote by Betty Shine

#107. Like I said, when I get pissed I say a lotta shit I don't mean and what I said about you I didn't mean," he repeated, beginning to look as impatient as he sounded.
"And like I said, you're old enough to learn you shouldn't do that," I repeated too, probably also looking impatient.
"That isn't me," he replied.
"Well, then, this obviously is eating you and that's your consequence because I have feelings and you walked all over them and you can't order me to shake it off so you can feel better. It's there, burned in my brain and I can't just forget it because you tell me to. So you have to live with that. You can't and want me gone, say it now because I'm beginning to like Betty and I met Shambles and Sunny and I'm having dinner with them tomorrow night and I'd rather not make ties when I'm going to need to hit the road because my boss is going to get rid of me."
"Shambles and Sunny?" he asked.
"Shambles and Sunny," I answered but didn't share more. "Now, can we just move on and do our best to work together and all other times avoid each other or do you want me to go?"
He moved forward an inch and I again fought the urge to retreat.
"Forgiveness is divine," he said softly and I'd never heard him talk soft. He had a very nice voice but when it went soft, it was beautiful.
This also sucked. (BTW, in the beginning a lot of things sucked! :D) I mean Lauren uses this word 'sucks'.
"I'm not divine," I returned. "I'm also not Ace an #Quote by Kristen Ashley

#108. But he refused to answer when addressed in English and forbade the speaking of English in his home. His daughters understood very little German. (Their mother insisted that the girls speak only English in the home. She reasoned that the less they understood German, the less they would find out about the cruelty of their father.) Consequently, the four daughters grew up having little communion with their father. He never spoke to them except to curse them. His Gott verdammte came to be regarded as hello and good-bye. When very angry, he'd call the object of his temper, Du Russe! This he considered his most obscene expletive. He hated Austria. He hated America. Most of all he hated Russia. He had never been to that country and had never laid eyes on a Russian. No one understood his hatred of that dimly known country and its vaguely known people. This was the man who was Francie's maternal grandfather. She hated him the way his daughters hated him. * #Quote by Betty Smith

#109. Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter. #Quote by Betty Smith

#110. Anger tears me up inside ... My own ... or anyone else's. #Quote by Betty White

#111. I had seen a dawn like this one only twice in my life: once in Vietnam, when a Bouncing Betty had risen from the earth on a night trail and twisted its tentacles of light around my thighs, and years earlier outside of Franklin, Louisiana, when my father and I discovered the body of a labor organizer who had been crucified with sixteen-penny nails, ankle and wrist, against a barn wall. - Sunset Limited #Quote by James Lee Burke

#112. Salma and I had run into each other once or twice at film festivals because I was doing the press for Real Women Have Curves at the same time she was doing the press for Frida. She had seen Real Women Have Curves, and when the idea of Ugly Betty came up, she thought of me. Her enthusiasm about the project was so infectious-she spoke of it with such expectation. Everyone that was involved was really excited about the project. I really wanted to be a part of it. #Quote by America Ferrera

#113. It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it's Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep reading, and don't ever let somebody else - anybody - have a say about, or try to control, what you choose to learn from and/or escape into. #Quote by Trent Zelazny

#114. 'Ugly Betty' taught me everything about fashion. #Quote by Mark Indelicato

#115. Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness and drudgery of their lives at Mrs. Monday's and transported them to palaces in India, canals in Holland, pioneer stockades during the Indian wars, cattle ranches in the West, mountains in Switzerland, pagodas in China, igloos in Alaska, jungles in Africa, castles in England, slums in London, gardens in Japan, or most important of all, into happy homes where there were mothers and fathers and no Mrs. Mondays or Marybelles. #Quote by Betty MacDonald

#116. I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide. #Quote by Elaine Stritch

#117. The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world. #Quote by Betty Williams

#118. I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right. #Quote by Elizabeth Banks

#119. What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit. #Quote by Betty Ford

#120. When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up ... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne. #Quote by Dorian Corey

#121. Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework
an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#122. Was that a bad lady, Papa?" she asked eagerly.
No."
But she looked bad."
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky."
But she was all painted and ... "
She was one who had seen better days. #Quote by Betty Smith

#123. Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? #Quote by Betty Buckley

#124. There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory. #Quote by Betty Smith

#125. Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community? #Quote by Betty Friedan

#126. Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment #Quote by Betty White

#127. I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season. #Quote by Alfre Woodard

#128. 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, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him. #Quote by Betty Smith

#129. Thus Betty scraped through a second bitter crisis, one that might have shattered a character more brittle. But she had grown sharp as bile from this, her latest shock, and each passing day increased her edge. Worse, there was no one now to notice her shrinking humanity and cry halt ... by turns she would become lightheaded, cackling away like one insane. It was the lightness of one who has nothing more to lose. #Quote by Eddie Lenihan

#130. There is something about the creative process ... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened ... it's a sort of happy accident. #Quote by Betty Comden

#131. I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well. #Quote by Betty Wright

#132. I always tape my Christmas show in advance. That way I can spend the season of joy and goodwill with my only sister in Florida. She's kinda a creep but she's got a pool. #Quote by Betty White

#133. Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds. #Quote by Betty Jane Wylie

#134. They had absolutely no sexual interest in me. #Quote by Betty Hill

#135. Being a lady does not require silence. #Quote by Betty Ford

#136. 'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit. #Quote by Betty White

#137. Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do. #Quote by Betty Williams

#138. The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White. #Quote by Jay Leno

#139. We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. #Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

#140. Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced. #Quote by Betty Hill

#141. John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland. #Quote by Betty Williams

#142. You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you. #Quote by Wally Lamb

#143. Oh, I want to hold it all!" she cried. "I want to hold the way the night is - cold without wind. And the way the stars are so near and shiny. I want to hold all of it tight until it hollers out, 'Let me go! Let me go! #Quote by Betty Smith

#144. I was on a 747 flight out of Denver with four flight attendants on the plane. One of the flight attendants got off the plane to go check someone's carry-on bag in the cargo hold, and while she was gone, the door closed and we began to taxi out. While we were giving the demo, we looked out the window of the airplane to see the flight attendant running alongside the plane in the snow, waving and yelling and trying to catch up to us. 'Did you notice that we're missing someone?' I said to the other flight attendant. 'Yes, but try to keep it low-key - there's a supervisor on board!' Well, it's hard to keep it low-key when someone is running alongside your plane, waving and screaming. The plane stopped and the air stairs went down so she could get on board, and my co-worker said, 'Tell her to try to be inconspicuous when she gets back on.' Well, she had to walk the entire length of the plane to get back to her station, and everybody on board broke into applause. #Quote by Betty N. Thesky

#145. Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. Womanlike, she set about changing all those things in him after marriage. #Quote by Betty Smith

#146. but her body was fuller. #Quote by Betty Smith

#147. If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn't even think about discrimination. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#148. Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience. #Quote by Betty White

#149. I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored. #Quote by Betty White

#150. An individual's ability to draw is ... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing. #Quote by Betty Edwards

#151. I don't know. I don't know anything, really. I just feel. And when the feeling is strong enough, then I just say I know. But I don't ... #Quote by Betty Smith

#152. After splashing icy water on their faces and rubbing them fiery red with one of the rough sweet-smelling towels, they came in and took their places at the big kitchen table. This morning the table wore a bright red-and-white checked cloth and a pot of red geraniums. Mrs. Campbell handed the girls their plates, each with a slice of ham and half of a crisp, tan waffle. #Quote by Betty MacDonald

#153. Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen. #Quote by Betty Jane Wylie

#154. If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White #Quote by Carrie Jones

#155. I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops with my build. I got to sling beer and sing when I just want to sing. I drink because I got responsibilities that I can't handle ... I am not a happy man. I got a wife and children and I don't happen to be a hard-working man. I never wanted a family ... Yes, your mother works hard. I love my wife and I love my children. But shouldn't a man have a better life? Maybe someday it will be that the Unions will arrange for a man to work and to have time for himself too. But that won't be in my time. Now, it's work hard all the time or be a bum ... no in-between. When I die, nobody will remember me for long. No one will say, "He was a man who loved his family and believed in the Union." All they will say is," Too bad. But he was nothing but a drunk no matter which way you look at it." Yes they'll say that. #Quote by Betty Smith

#156. This is the book, then , and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child
even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and cannot sound the words properly. You must do this that the child will grow up knowing of what is great
knowing that these tenements of Williamsburg are not the whole world."
Katie: " The Protestant Bible and Shakespeare. #Quote by Betty Smith

#157. I hate that word boobs. I wish people wouldn't say it, especially girls. It's like calling your own body stupid. #Quote by Betty Miles

#158. If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex. #Quote by Betty Dodson

#159. You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you. #Quote by Betty Smith

#160. Spring came early that year and the sweet warm nights made her restless. She walked up and down the streets and through the park. And wherever she went, she saw a boy and a girl together; walking arm-in-arm, sitting on a park bench with their arms around each other, standing closely and in silence in a vestibule. Everyone in the world but Francie had a sweetheart or a friend. She seemed to be the only lonely one in Brooklyn. #Quote by Betty Smith

#161. How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly.
"The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth. #Quote by Betty Smith

#162. I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique." #Quote by Betty Friedan

#163. She wanted desperately to put out her hand
and clutch his arm and explain why she was
sad, and not because of Tom, who had suddenly
become quite unimportant, but because
she loved him so much and he didn't care
two straws for her.
'I'm very happy,' she said a shade too
loudly. As the waiter went past she took
another glass of champagne.
'Happy? Oh yes, and I'm sure you will
be - -because you will make your own happiness.
You'll tend it with all the care of
someone holding a last candle in the dark.
You'll learn to make do with second best; a
great many men and women do, you know.
Just a few know what real happiness is -
to love someone so much that nothing else
matters any more, only the two of you and
the life you share.' Gideon smiled faintly.
'We could have been like that, you and I. You know that deep in your heart, don't you,
my darling? And do you know something
else? If it would make you happy, I would
give up all I have and live in a desert with
you, or on top of a mountain. I'd pluck the
moon from the sky and hang the stars round
your beautiful neck. The world could be paradise.'
He sighed. 'But most of us, as I said,
make do with second best.'
Amelia drank in every word, her insides
glowing with excitement. He loved her - he
must, to talk to her like that. She had only to
explain...

The next minute sh #Quote by Betty Neels

#164. I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh ... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it. #Quote by Betty White

#165. We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#166. Vaccination is a very good thing. It makes you tell your left hand from your right. #Quote by Betty Smith

#167. Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps shod her beautifully arched feet. "Beautiful legs, then, is the secret of being a mistriss," concluded Francie. She looked down at her own long thin legs. "I'll never make it, I guess." Sighing , she resigned herself to a sinless life. #Quote by Betty Smith

#168. This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight #Quote by Jennifer Crusie

#169. From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived. #Quote by Betty Smith

#170. Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong. #Quote by Betty White

#171. A woman, big with child, sat patiently at the curb in a stiff wooden chair. She sat in the hot sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life. #Quote by Betty Smith

#172. I just want to do as many utterly different parts as I can get. Variety teaches you to act, and it keeps you fresh in your approach. #Quote by Betty Field

#173. Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it. #Quote by Betty White

#174. The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white. #Quote by Betty Friedan

#175. She wasn't looking her best; her hair was coming down, for she had shed hairpins as she'd run, and her face lacked powder and lipstick. She looked hot and tired and surprisingly happy. He thought that he had never seen anyone quite as beautiful, so absolutely necessary to his happiness. It wasn't the first time he had fallen in love, but he knew that this was the last. #Quote by Betty Neels

#176. When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. #Quote by Betty Dodson

#177. I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them. #Quote by Betty White

#178. I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street. #Quote by Zoe Kazan

#179. You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed. #Quote by Betty Cuthbert

#180. Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid. #Quote by Karen DeCrow

#181. If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it. #Quote by Betty Eadie

#182. When we pray we should ask the Lord to reveal His will to us and then pray accordingly, act obediently and wait patiently. #Quote by Betty Malz

#183. If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. #Quote by Betty Eadie

#184. I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left! #Quote by Betty White

#185. I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me. #Quote by Betty Williams

#186. I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength! #Quote by Betty White

#187. I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it's just not forever. You can have the best of intentions. #Quote by Betty Wright

#188. Time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow. #Quote by Betty Smith

#189. If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me! #Quote by Betty White

#190. For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy. #Quote by Betty Ford

#191. I'm definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I'm open to something if it comes up. #Quote by Betty Who

#192. To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive. #Quote by Ashley Jensen

#193. I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do. #Quote by Betty Ford

#194. Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious. #Quote by Betty MacDonald

#195. Did you even stop to eat?" As soon as my question is out, another thought follows. Emmy Harris better not try anything while I'm gone. We covered the pie situation, but I wouldn't put anything past her.

Logan Brantley is nobody's fool and picks up on my tone. "What are you really asking?"

I'm not beating around the bush. "Did Betty Crocker Barbie try to bring you a picnic basket tonight because I'm not around? #Quote by Meghan March

#196. My stay in Camp Betty was the longest I'd been without drink or drugs in my adult life. [...] At first, they put me in a room with a guy who owned a bowling alley, but he snored like an asthmatic horse, so I moved and ended up with a depressive mortician. [...] The mortician snored even louder than the bowling alley guy – he was like a moose with a tracheotomy. #Quote by Ozzy Osbourne

#197. She wasn't satisfied by the play she saw the following Saturday either. All right. The long lost lover came home just in time t pay the mortgage. What if he had been held up and couldn't make it? The landlord would have to give them thirty days to get out - at least that's how it was in Brooklyn. In that month something might turn up. If it didn't and they had to get out, well, they'd have to make the best of it. The pretty heroine would have to go out peddling papers. The mother would have to do cleaning by the day. But they'd live. You betcha they'd live, thought Francie grimly. It takes a lot of doing to die. #Quote by Betty Smith

#198. When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively. #Quote by America Ferrera

#199. Betty White is probably a very nice woman. #Quote by Elaine Stritch

#200. Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior. #Quote by Betty Ford