Bethenny Frankel Quotes

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

I despise shopping and department stores.

You do what you can, when you can, and only after you've had enough sleep.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different
sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I'm a big bath person.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

A lot of people feed their kids' tantrums with snacks and toys. Don't negotiate with terrorists.

The thing about childhood noise is that if you let it take over, it can obliterate your true nature. The best qualities in you have always been there, but when you get stuck in the past and make your pain your identity, then that's what you become… To have a future, you have to let the past be past.

When you are like a maniac, you just have to accept where you are and what's going on in your life.

I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.

Don't paralyze yourself worrying that you might not do the right thing that will lead you to the fulfillment of all your dreams for the rest of your life - that's just too much pressure. You'll scare yourself into doing nothing.

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

I truly don't believe in regret.

Yoga is a gift that you give yourself.

It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one.

Life is stressful.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I didn't binge when I was pregnant.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

And so what if it takes a while? What's the hurry? Great things take time, and your life is a project.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.

I'm stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

You have to give yourself a break. You can't come together with anyone else if you can't even get yourself together.

I don't believe in diets.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

Sleep. It's like giving yourself a massage.

New York City is my playground.

I never thought I'd be a role model but I think to some people I am or have been.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that's when you start to shine.

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

No matter what you've done, even if you regret it, even if you don't know what the hell to do next, every single thing that happens to you has the potential to open new doors. It happened for a reason - and it's still taking you somewhere, even if you can't see it right now.

Yoga has so many different practices. I don't really enjoy Ashtanga. I don't really enjoy Bikram because I don't like knowing what's coming.

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

When you regret something, what you aren't seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you're going to see why you didn't get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

That is very good. People always want to be in a hurry. They want to control everything around them. Even the weather. They say, "What is the weather today?" The only thing they don't control is themselves, when that is the one thing they can control.