Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

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

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

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

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

We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.

- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

- 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