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
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him… — 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
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait… — 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 Image
“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 wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined with hotels and villas, while beyond lie orange orchards and 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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