The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIn 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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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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Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.
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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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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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