Mary Boykin Chesnut

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

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 allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.