Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchellwas an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 November 1900
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
Margaret Mitchell quotes about
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
The history of the versions is a history of doctrine and dispute.
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.
[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
Crackers are short on sparkle.
How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!