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

Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.