Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
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You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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