Margaret Mitchell Quotes

Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman’s lot. It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, […]

How wonderful it would be never to marry but to go on being lovely in pale green dresses and forever being courted by handsome men. (“Gone with the Wind’)

My dear, I don’t give a damn.

Young misses whut eats heavy mos’ gener’ly doan ever ketch husbands.

Nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does. Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is. (“Gone with the Wind”)

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it’s be brave or else be killed.