#betty

Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them. ↗

— Betty Smith

#betty-smith #humor #thanks #humor

Betty was a great shark of a woman. Men died in her wake. ↗

— Robert Mosely

#men

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond. ↗

— Philippe Djian

#diamond #love #silence #love

I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are parts of her still with me; I played her for four years and, of course, the lines get blurred. ↗

— America Ferrera

#betty #blurred #course #four #get

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. ↗

— America Ferrera

#betty #creatively #doing #else #everyone

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along. ↗

— America Ferrera

#anything #betty #come #coming #i

Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker? ↗

— Howie Carr

#been #betty #ever #fictional #real

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#cake #check #clinic #eaten #friend

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

You can have it all, just not all at the same time. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #life #making-it #opportunity #success