Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

Margaret Mitchell's Popular Quotes

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

- Margaret Mitchell

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came …

- Margaret Mitchell

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

- Margaret Mitchell

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

- Margaret Mitchell

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

- Margaret Mitchell

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

- Margaret Mitchell

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

- Margaret Mitchell

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

- Margaret Mitchell

After all, tomorrow is another day.

- Margaret Mitchell