Natalie Clifford Barney
writer and salonist (1876-1972)
Margaret Mitchell, an American novelist and journalist, is best known for her novel ‘Gone with the Wind,’ which earned her the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Despite writing only one published novel during her lifetime, her legacy lives on through the publication of her girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager.
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About the Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchellwas an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell’s girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
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Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900.
Margaret Mitchell’s only published novel during her lifetime was the American Civil War-era novel ‘Gone with the Wind’.
Margaret Mitchell’s novel ‘Gone with the Wind’ won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.
After her death, a collection of Margaret Mitchell’s girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled ‘Lost Laysen,’ were published.
A collection of newspaper articles written by Margaret Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
14 Quotes by Margaret Mitchell
- 1.
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 2.
After all, tomorrow is another day.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 3.
There ain’t nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 4.
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 5.
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 7.
Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 8.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 9.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 10.
My dear, I don’t give a damn.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 11.
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 12.
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
- 13.
What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)
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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.
Margaret MitchellAmerican author and journalist (1900-1949)