01c. 1924 ADSomewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
02c. 1924 ADI stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you,' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn’t.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
03c. 1924 ADScarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin - that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
04c. 1924 ADJeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
05c. 1924 ADyou can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.''My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
06c. 1924 ADIf Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
07c. 1924 ADIf I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
08c. 1924 ADThe whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
09c. 1924 ADThere’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
10c. 1924 ADWhat Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land in which men were contented, uncontradicted, and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world, except credit for having intelligence.Scarlett exercised the same charms as Melanie but with a studied artistry and consummate skill. The difference between the two girls lay in the fact that Melanie spoke kind and flattering words from a desire to make people happy, if only temporarily, and Scarlett never did it except to further her own aims.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
11c. 1924 ADIt seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
12c. 1924 ADFo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -PrissyMargaret Mitchell / quote ↗
13c. 1924 ADAshley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
14c. 1924 ADI’ve felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I’ve had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn’t be bothered about things that didn’t matter, things I could part with easily and not miss, like good manners and--well, things like that. I’ve been too afraid my boat would be swamped and so I’ve dumped overboard the things that seemed least important.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
15c. 1924 ADScarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
16c. 1924 ADI want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
18c. 1924 ADThe way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
19c. 1924 ADTalking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
20c. 1924 ADDeath and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
22c. 1924 ADUntil you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
23c. 1924 ADDid you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
24c. 1924 ADI want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
