Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings said this quote

She drew gallantry from men as the sun drew water. Her pertness enchanted them. Young men went away from her with a feeling of bravado. Old men were enslaved by her silver curls. Something about her was forever female and made all men virile.

~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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.

~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time.

~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings