Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes

• 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.

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  Girl, Children, Father

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• 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.

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  War, Divorce, Fighting

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

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  Men, World, Unlimited

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.187, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Hate, War, Hero

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• Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

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  Memories, Sorrow, Worst

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• Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

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  War, Writing, Heart

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.215, Penguin

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

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  Mother, Wife, Wives And Mothers

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.64, Penguin

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

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  War, History, Sitting

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• 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?

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  Writing, House, Want

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.228, Penguin

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• She died praying that she might die.

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  Might, Praying, Died

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.228, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

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  Family, Hurt, Home

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• I am always on the women's side.

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  Sides

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

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  Men, Lazy Man, Laziness

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• 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.

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  Rain, Loss, Sea

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• I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

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  Regret, Vain, Foreboding

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• Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

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  Forgiveness, Lasts, Impossible

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• Threatened men live long.

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  Men, Long, Threatened

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.59, Penguin

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• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

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  Laughing, Breathe, Laughable

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• A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

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  Spring, Autumn, Doe

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.69, Penguin

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

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  Weight, Eyelids

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