You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls. - Margaret Mitchell
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. - Margaret Mitchell
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. - Margaret Mitchell
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! - Margaret Mitchell
In a weak moment, I have written a book. - Margaret Mitchell
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. - Margaret Mitchell
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. - Margaret Mitchell
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. - Margaret Mitchell
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. - Margaret Mitchell
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. - Margaret Mitchell
This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent - Margaret Mitchell