Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

She died praying that she might die.

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

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
Mary Boykin Chesnut

Is anything worth it?

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

I am always on the women's side.

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.