I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTFather asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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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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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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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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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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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
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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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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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 is impossible to a determined woman.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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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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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.
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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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I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
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