The happiest days are when babies come.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.

. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.