To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. — 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
“An old maid, that’s what I’m to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for… — 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
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
“If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things… — 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
“It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, but I see… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“. . . children should draw [a husband & wife] nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours, and [your husband] had nothing to do but support them. . . . don't neglect husaband for children, don't shut him out of the nursery, but teach him how to help in it. His place is there as… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“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
