The world was hers for the reading.

- Betty Smith

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

- Betty Smith

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

- Betty Smith

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

- Betty Smith

Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even thoug…

- Betty Smith

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

- Betty Smith

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

- Betty Smith

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions…

- Betty Smith

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 sorrow…

- Betty Smith