Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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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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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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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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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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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Better lose your life than your soul.
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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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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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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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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I’ve no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I’m willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
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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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