She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

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.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.