Margaret Mitchell Wind Quotations

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

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.

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

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.