| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31148 |
| QUOTATION: | Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby’s born or somebody dies and that’s a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that’s a jerk. With a woman, it’s all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Ma Joad (Jane Darwell), The Grapes of Wrath, reply when Pa says she’s the one who keeps the family going (1940).
Based on the novel by John Steinbeck. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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