People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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 love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — 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
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. — 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
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it… — 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 takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward; men seldom do,—for when women are… — 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
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years,… — 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
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles. — 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… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“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
