I don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHe was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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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.
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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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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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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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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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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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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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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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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’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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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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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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