Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes
- Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! Cautious
- Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world All
- I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe Breathe
- There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house… All
- Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. Forgiveness
- She died praying that she might die. Die
- I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why… All
- I am always on the women's side. Funny
- I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. Allow
- The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead. Eyelids
- Is anything worth it? Anything Worth
- I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. Disadvantageous