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 ALCOTTBetter lose your life than your soul.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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I like good strong words that mean something.
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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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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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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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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
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A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
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It’s lovely to see people so happy.
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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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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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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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I don’t worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
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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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It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Some stories are so familiar its like going home.
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I’d rather take coffee than compliments now.
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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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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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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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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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Many argue; not many converse.
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