Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTLove 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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 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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
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If 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.
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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