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
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 Copy Share Image
I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — 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
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world… — 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
I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another! — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that… — 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
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness… — 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
[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
Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is… — 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
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