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Rhett Butler

How fickle is woman.

— Gone with the Wind · 1939

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker remarks, in a tone that may be rueful or sour, that women change their minds or affections easily. It is a sweeping generalisation, best read as the speaker's own view of inconstancy rather than fact, and the exclamatory phrasing gives it a theatrical, world-weary flavour.

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