Women Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

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“How beautiful that is!" said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.”

Louisa May Alcott

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I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

Louisa May Alcott

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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Louisa May Alcott

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“…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…”

Louisa May Alcott

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“There should always be one old maid in a family.”

Louisa May Alcott

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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

Louisa May Alcott

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Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself…

Louisa May Alcott

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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a…

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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men…

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“It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out…

Louisa May Alcott

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“Very likely some Mrs Grundy will observe, "I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats,…

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“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work…

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“Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward; men seldom do,—for when women are…

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Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the…

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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“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…

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