Women Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

16 Women quotes by Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott’s voice rings with the earnestness of a 19th‑century storyteller. In this set of sixteen, she lifts the everyday triumphs and trials of women with gentle, enduring insight.

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

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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

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

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

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“Women who dare are few, the women who would stand and wait are many.”

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

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head boobed out from the grotto of books in…

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Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

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“…the child's heart bled when it was broken.”

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“She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl…

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“I read somewhere that every inch of rope used in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so that wherever a…

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“Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.”

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“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.”

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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…

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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

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“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…

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“If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really…

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“ "I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the world within." ”

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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