American - Author | March 31, 1823 - November 22, 1886
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
PowerMenWorldSameOverUnlimited
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
LoveForgivenessImpossibleLasts
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
TimeMeThinkNowJournalMy Own
I am always on the women's side.
WomenI AmAlwaysSideAm
I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
LaughWillBreatheLaughableWhile
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
MenLazySpiritRecklessIf I Could
She died praying that she might die.
DieSheMightPrayingDied
Is anything worth it?
WorthWorth ItAnything
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
MyselfRegretsVainAllow
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
LeadWeightOur
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?
NowSayWantDwellWhySee
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