Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome stories are so familiar its like going home.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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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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My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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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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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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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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