Bethenny Frankel Quotes
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.
Frankel, Bethenny. A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life. Touchstone, 2011.
We can and do influence life greatly, for the good and the bad. Public health and human extermination of species by over use are good examples.
While this was certainly true in Ancient times, modernity has given us Public Health and other techniques that now enable us to prevent accidents. Automobile safety from seat belts and air bags are good examples. From a political point of view, however, accidents can and often do control the political landscape as in the unexpected death of a national leader. Often natural disasters are included in the general term “accidents” where the meaning is taken as that which is beyond human control.
Bethenny Frankel is an American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author. She rose to prominence as a contestant on the reality competition series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, in which she was the runner-up, in 2005. She later became a main cast member in the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City; she has starred in eight of its thirteen seasons since its premiere in 2008. She also starred in her own spin-off series Bethenny Ever After (2010–2012), Bethenny & Fredrik (2018), and the daytime talk show Bethenny (2013–2014).