Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone With the Wind
Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!
MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone With the Wind
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone with the Wind
The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts.
MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone With the Wind
Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.