What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.” — 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
