You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt’s lovely to see people so happy.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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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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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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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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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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I often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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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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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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