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

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

- 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

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

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

After all, tomorrow is another day.

- Margaret Mitchell

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

- Margaret Mitchell