Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man. — Betty Smith Every man Copy Share Image
But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe… — Betty Smith Being loved Copy Share Image
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live. — Betty Smith Inspirational Copy Share Image
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
“An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree.” — Betty Smith Girl Copy Share Image
Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'. — Betty Smith Giving Copy Share Image
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. — Betty Smith Child Copy Share Image
“A song that Johnny sang once,” explained Katie. As Francie wrote the name, she heard the chords; she heard her father singing,… — Betty Smith Better world Copy Share Image
But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up… — Betty Smith Bonfire Copy Share Image
“A terrible panic that had no name came over her as she realized that many of the sweet babies in the world… — Betty Smith Old man Copy Share Image
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all… — Betty Smith Brooklyn Copy Share Image
“I don't know. Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to… — Betty Smith Suffer Copy Share Image
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in… — Betty Smith Clear Copy Share Image
“Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt.” — Betty Smith Dirt Copy Share Image
I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't… — Betty Smith Don-t-waste-time Copy Share Image
“Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. “You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that… — Betty Smith Lies Copy Share Image
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… — Betty Smith Fall in love Copy Share Image
This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food… — Betty Smith Born Copy Share Image
“If I open this envelope fifty years from now, I will be again as I am now and there will be no… — Betty Smith Life Copy Share Image
“All she’d notice was that some things were strange because they reminded her of Brooklyn and that other things were strange because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“How’d you know it was a tulip if you’d never seen one?” “I’d seen pictures. Well, when I looked at it, the… — Betty Smith Flowers Copy Share Image
“Somehow, good talking had gotten tied up with good sex in his mind. He wanted a woman to talk to, one to… — Betty Smith Good sex Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.… — Betty Smith Berries Copy Share Image
“Each day, as she passed the house whose number she claimed, she looked at it with gratitude and affection. On windy days,… — Betty Smith Love Copy Share Image
“And that’s where the whole trouble is,” thought Francie. “We’re too much alike to understand each other because we don’t even understand… — Betty Smith Different person Copy Share Image
“When it first appeared, in 1943, it was called, by those critics who liked it, an honest book, and that is accurate… — Betty Smith Books Copy Share Image
“Joanna. Remember Joanna. Francie could never forget her. From that time on, remembering the stoning women, she hated women. She feared them… — Betty Smith Time Copy Share Image
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the… — Betty Smith Bitter Copy Share Image
“She went to the public school that the three youngest girls attended and in halting English told the teacher that the children… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
“When the strong healthy boy, howling at the indignity of the birth process, was put to her breast, she felt a wild… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
“Francie said nothing more. Katie knew that she was letting them down. But she couldn't help it, she just couldn't help it.… — Betty Smith Katierommely Copy Share Image
“Someone has to lose and it's just as apt to be you as the other fellow.” — Betty Smith Fellow Copy Share Image
“Who'd ever guess," said Francie, ¨looking at the outside of him, that he was so different inside?¨” — Betty Smith Different Copy Share Image
“You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you.” — Betty Smith Comedy Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Life Copy Share Image
“Run, run, you fool, before the waves of hurt start breaking.” — Betty Smith Run Run Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living…live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Gone Copy Share Image
“When I grow up and know that I am going to have a baby, I will remember to walk proud and slow.” — Betty Smith Walk Proud Copy Share Image
She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to… — Betty Smith Able Copy Share Image
