I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“for he had plenty of money and nothing to do, and Satan is proverbially fond of providing employment for full and idle… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching," Would be the most appropriate motto for this… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head boobed out from the grotto of books in… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“I read somewhere that every inch of rope used in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so that wherever a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“ "I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the world within." ” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
