Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIf we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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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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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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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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