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 ALCOTTDon’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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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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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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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