Girl Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

— Louisa May Alcott

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

— Louisa May Alcott

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

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

— Louisa May Alcott

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

— Louisa May Alcott

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

— Louisa May Alcott

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

— Louisa May Alcott

“It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!”

— Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

...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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

— Louisa May Alcott

...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

— Louisa May Alcott