QUOTATION:I’m tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I’m tired of acting like I don’t eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I’m tired of saying, “How wonderful you are!” to fool men who haven’t got one-half the sense I’ve got, and I’m tired of pretending I don’t know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they’re doing it.
ATTRIBUTION:Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), U.S. novelist. Scarlett O’Hara, in Gone with the Wind, vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 5 (1936).
Posted by kendra at April 30, 2005 10:15 PM