"Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler."

"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."

"It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer."

"The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man."

"Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!"