Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome stories are so familiar its like going home.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do 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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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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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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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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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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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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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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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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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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