Abby May Alcott Quotes

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden.
ABBY MAY ALCOTT

Another Beast Burden Pride Silence Women Yoke
On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to ‘drag life’s lengthening chain along.
ABBY MAY ALCOTT

Assured Chafe Designed Feel Gall Instinct Nature
[On her recently widowed father’s much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.
ABBY MAY ALCOTT

Assure Busy Conjugating Father Verb Wife Younger
Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?
ABBY MAY ALCOTT

Selfish Sorrow
On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy.
ABBY MAY ALCOTT

Complaint Hush Pity Pride Scorn Silence Sympathy
Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
ABBY MAY ALCOTT

Crushed Flower Giving Little Odour Sorrow
Girls are taught to seem, to appear – not to be and do.
ABBY MAY ALCOTT

Appear Girl Seem Taught