“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 slaves.” ChildrenGirlFatherHousePoorWifeMarriedSlaveMarried Women Author: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?” WantWritingHouseLoathing Book:Mary Chesnut's Diary Source: Mary Chesnut's Diary