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.
Threatened men live long. - Mary Boykin Chesnut
Threatened men live long.
- Mary Boykin Chesnut
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 … - Mary Boykin Chesnut
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 …
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 sl… - Mary Boykin Chesnut
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 sl…
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 i… - Mary Boykin Chesnut
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 i…
Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst. - Mary Boykin Chesnut
Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.
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
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?
We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dea… - Mary Boykin Chesnut
We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dea…
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world - Mary Boykin Chesnut
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world
Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere. - Mary Boykin Chesnut
Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.
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