[On her recently widowed father’s much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.
ABBY MAY ALCOTTWherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden.
More Abby May Alcott Quotes
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Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?
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On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy.
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Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden.
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Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
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Girls are taught to seem, to appear – not to be and do.
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On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to ‘drag life’s lengthening chain along.
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