Quotes by Mary Chesnut

• I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
• Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
• Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
• I am always on the women's side.
• I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
• 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 will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
• Is anything worth it?
• Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
• She died praying that she might die.
• The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.