Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

A woman has to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

Grandma Hutto’s flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. ... We are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.

We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.