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Woman Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do…
- Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part…
- I'll try to be what Father loves to call me, a 'little woman,' and not be rough and wild but do my duty here instead…
- We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn…
- ...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have…
- When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if…
- Woman work a great many miracles.
- Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
- A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
- …proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
- If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an…
- The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
- Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
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