Betty Smith Quote

I don’t know, Miss Lizzie said. Sometimes I think it’s better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be…safe. She waited until the next scream died away. At least she knows she’s living.

Betty Smith

I don’t know, Miss Lizzie said. Sometimes I think it’s better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be…safe. She waited until the next scream died away. At least she knows she’s living.

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About Betty Smith

Betty Smith (born Elisabeth Lillian Wehner; December 15, 1896 – January 17, 1972) was an American playwright and novelist, who wrote the 1943 bestseller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.