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“When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.”
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“You got a minute, God? I'm not really complaining but it says that a man has 613 mitzvahs to do but a woman has only 3. So how come I am busy from the minute I wake up in the morning until I go to bed at night, and Mr. Goldberg, who has 613 mitzvahs to do, has enough time to go upstairs at four o'clock every afternoon and take a nap?”
― The Smartest Woman I Know
― The Smartest Woman I Know
“One day a customer asked Ettie what she was making for dinner. "Food," she answered without hesitation.”
― The Smartest Woman I Know
― The Smartest Woman I Know
“You understand about boyfriends of boys, God? I don't. But if I had to choose between a somebody who fights with somebody and a somebody who wants to make beleive that a boy is his girlfriend, it should be my business? If it were up to me everybody should mind their own business.”
― The Smartest Woman I Know
― The Smartest Woman I Know
