Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes.

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...

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them. -Scarlett O’Hara

Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed...

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O’Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

Ashley 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.

Scarlett O’Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

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...

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.