Mary Boykin Chesnut famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 are slaves.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Girl #Children #Father
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Men #Lazy #Spirit
We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#War #Hate #Hero
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#War #Divorce #Fighting
Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Family #Hurt #Home
Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Memories #Sorrow #Worst
Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Rain #Sea #Weather
A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Spring #Autumn #Doe
Threatened men live long.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Men #Long
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#War #Writing #Heart
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#War #History #Sitting
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Weight #Eyelids
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Regret #Vain #Foreboding
I am always on the women's side.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Sides
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Writing #House #Want
She died praying that she might die.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Might #Praying
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Lasts #Impossible #Indifference
I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Laughing #Breathe #Laughable
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Men #World #Unlimited
To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut

#Dark #Men #Thinking

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