Betty Smith said this quote

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.

~ Betty Smith

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

~ Betty Smith

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

~ Betty Smith

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together, it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman... whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them.

~ Betty Smith