Chastisement Quote by Louisa May Alcott

“Ah, Jo, instead of wishing that, thank God that 'Father and Mother were particular', and pity from your heart those who have no such…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo, who loved her very…

— Louisa May Alcott

“I struck him down for Deborah, and for all the poor and ignorant women I have seen screaming in the flames, for the women…

— Anne Rice

“She had forgotten his faults as we forget the sorrows of our departed childhood.”

— George Eliot

“…if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!'…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea as yet, but left it for time to tell…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her…

— E.M. Forster

“Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good…

— Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

“My mother had become a obsession for me, a religion, and the very thought of referring to another woman as Mother seems sacrilegious, a…

— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

“The amusement she had drawn from their disapproval was a slavish remnant, a derisive dance on the north bank of the Ohio. There was…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner