It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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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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The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
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Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
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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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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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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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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
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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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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
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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 don’t like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
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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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