Betty Draper

"I'm trying to be a good mother and a good wife, but I'm not sure I'm succeeding at either."

"Don't tell me what to do. I'm a grown woman."

"I don't know how to say goodbye to people."

"You're going to have to learn that life isn't a love story."

"I wish I could be a little girl again, when the biggest problem was a skinned knee."

"Sometimes I think about my life, and I wonder what I've done with it."

"Marriage is just an arrangement, really."

"I want to be happy, but I don't know if I know how."

"People are always trying to tell you who you are. Don't let them."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."

"The world doesn't care about your feelings."

"I should have been an actress or a dancer or something."

"Everything I do is wrong."

"You can't just leave and expect everything to stay the same."

"I'm tired of being perfect."

"Love isn't real unless someone is willing to die for you."

"I don't understand why I'm not enough."

"Children are a blessing, but they're also a burden."

"I used to be beautiful."

"Sometimes I think about running away."

"Money doesn't buy happiness, but it buys things that make you forget you're unhappy."

"I want my children to respect me, even if they don't love me."

"A woman's place is wherever she decides it should be."

"I'm not interested in being anyone's second choice."

"The past is just something that happened. You can't change it."

"I believe in God, but I'm not sure he believes in me."

"Some people are born knowing what they want. I'm not one of them."

"You have to accept that some people will never understand you."

"I want to feel alive again."

"Being a mother is the hardest thing I've ever done."