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

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 quotes: She died praying that she might die.

She died praying that she might die.

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

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

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

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

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

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

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: 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.

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.

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: Is anything worth it?

Is anything worth it?

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

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

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: I am always on the women's side.

I am always on the women's side.

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

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

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: 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 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 quotes: Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

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

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: Womenwives and mothersare the same everywhere.

Women
wives and mothers
are the same everywhere.

Mary Boykin Chesnut quotes: Threatened men live long.

Threatened men live long.