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