If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
Margaret MitchellYou have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.
Margaret MitchellBut she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
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 MitchellYes, I want money more than anything else in the world.โ โThen youโve made the only choice. But thereโs a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. Itโs loneliness.
Margaret MitchellI have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.
Margaret Mitchell