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Margaret Mitchell quotes about life
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
— Margaret Mitchell
After all, tomorrow is another day!
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Hardships make or break people.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Perhaps – I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness, ” he enumerated silkily. “You are right, Scarlett. They aren’t important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying.
— Margaret Mitchell
Somewhere, 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, Gone with the Wind
If 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, Gone with the Wind
Death and taxes and childbirth. There’s never any convenient time for any of them.
— Margaret Mitchell
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