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Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

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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.

Source: Scarlett O'Hara, in Gone with the Wind, vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 5, 1936.
-- Margaret Mitchell, (Nov 8 1900-1949), US novelist; She won Pulitzer for her only book Gone with the Wind, 1936.


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