Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWomen have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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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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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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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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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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