| Biography | Author’s Book |
| Name: Mary Chesnut | Find on Amazon India: Link |
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| Death: 22-Nov-1886 |
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.
