31 Quotes by Mary Boykin Chesnut

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.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

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.

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.

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

I am always on the women’s side.

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

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