The Smartest Woman I Know Quotes

“One day a customer asked Ettie what she was making for dinner. "Food," she answered without hesitation.”
― Ilene Beckerman, 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.”
― Ilene Beckerman, The Smartest Woman I Know

“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?”
― Ilene Beckerman, The Smartest Woman I Know