Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPeople want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
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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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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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 don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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