Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
Margaret MitchellAll you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.
Margaret MitchellIf! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
Margaret MitchellYou're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
Margaret MitchellMy 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.
Margaret MitchellScarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.
Margaret Mitchell