31 Quotes by Mary Boykin Chesnut

When we read of the battles in India, in Italy, in the Crimea, what did we care? It was only an interesting topic, like any other, to look for in the paper. Now, you hear of a battle with a thrill and a shudder. It has come home to us ... A telegram comes to you and you leave it on your lap. You are pale with fright... How many, many of your friends or loved ones this scrap of paper may tell you have gone to their death.

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

Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.

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

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

She died praying that she might 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 dwell upon it?

I am always on the women's side.