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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSimple, 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.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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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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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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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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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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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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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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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.
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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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