Margaret Mitchell

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything

why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all — and yet so desirable

Only when like marries like can there be any happiness.”

No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don’t you be forgetting that.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything

to survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world

Ellen’s 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 inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it

The man owned the property, and the woman managed it

At sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, she looked sweet, charming and giddy, but she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate