Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.