The Whole World Can't Lick Us But

Times Were So Hard It Was Difficult To Feed And Lodge Humans, Much Less Animals.

Life's Under No Obligation To Give Us What We Expect. We Take What We Get And Are Thankful It's No Worse Than It Is.

It Doesn’t Matter Who You Marry, As Long As He Thinks Like You And Is A Gentleman And A Southerner And Prideful. For A Woman, Love Comes After Marriage.” “oh, Pa, That’s Such An Old Country Notion!” “and A Good Notion It Is! All This American Business Of Running Around Marrying For Love, Like Servants, Like Yankees! The Best Marriages Are When The Parents Choose For The Girl. For How Can A Silly Piece Like Yourself Tell A Good Man From A Scoundrel?

The Old Guard Dies But It Never Surrenders.

If Gone With The Wind Has A Theme It Is That Of Survival. What Makes Some People Come Through Catastrophes And Others, Apparently Just As Able, Strong, And Brave, Go Under? It Happens In Every Upheaval. Some People Survive; Others Don't. What Qualities Are In Those Who Fight Their Way Through Triumphantly That Are Lacking In Those That Go Under? I Only Know That Survivors Used To Call That Quality 'gumption.' So I Wrote About People Who Had Gumption And People Who Didn't.