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Quotes About Strength

With the spirit of her people those who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him. I'll think of it all tomorrow at Tara. I can strand it then. Tomorrow , I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, The dogs bark but the caravan passes on? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
~ Margaret Mitchell
This isn't the first time the world's been upside down and it won't be the last. It's happened before and it'll happen again. And when it does happen, everyone loses everything and everyone is equal. And then they all start again at taw, with nothing at all. That is, nothing except the cunning of their brains and strength of their hands.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I've got something that most pretty ladies haven't got—and that's a mind that's made up.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted.
~ Margaret Mitchell
What a white livered, cowardly little bitch you are.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I believe woman could manage everything in the world without men's help–except birthing babies...
~ Margaret Mitchell
I always intended having you, Scarlett, since that first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks when you threw that vase and swore and proved that you weren't a lady. I
~ Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett O'Hara wasn't pretty.
~ Margaret Mitchell
They burned you," she [Scarlett] thought, "and they laid you flat. But they didn't lick you. They couldn't lick you. You'll grow back just as big and sassy as you used to be!
~ Margaret Mitchell
Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
~ Margaret Mitchell
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~ Margaret Mitchell
Oh, I don't care! I don't care what they say!" she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her.
~ Margaret Mitchell
As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill—as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.
~ Margaret Mitchell
in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Tara made her charming, but the war made her Scarlett O'Hara.
~ Margaret Mitchell
She'd make them sorry. She'd show them. She didn't quite see how she'd show them, but she'd do it all the same. She'd hurt them worse than they hurt her.
~ Margaret Mitchell
With the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him. "I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
~ Margaret Mitchell
All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had
~ Margaret Mitchell
a woman not to be afraid of something.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen
~ Margaret Mitchell
Be a little man, Wade, and stop crying or I will come over there and slap you.
~ Margaret Mitchell