When a wave of love takes over a human being… such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker’s bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
