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 ALCOTTProve that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
More Louisa May Alcott Quotes
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Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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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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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Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
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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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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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Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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Every house needs a grandmother in it.
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Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.
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Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
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