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"Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them."
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"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."

"If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated."

"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."

"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."

"It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you " it must be deliberate."

"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."

"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."

"I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice."
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"I'll think of it 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."

"The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much."

"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."

"Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information."

"Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving."

"She had never understood either of the men she had loved and so she had lost them both. Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him."

"I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace."

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