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

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hardships make or break people.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect.

If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

Such as I am, I am a precious gift.