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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTThe 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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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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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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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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Many argue; not many converse.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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