31 Quotes by Mary Boykin Chesnut

Women – wives and mothers – are the same everywhere.

We try our soldiers to see if they are hot enough before we enlist them. If, when water is thrown on them they do not sizz, they won’t do; their patriotism is too cool.

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?

Is anything worth it?