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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
– Louisa May Alcott

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  1. -¦I’m always ready to talk, shouldn’t be a woman if I were not,’ laughed Mrs. Jo-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  2. -¦having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  3. When you think you are ready you are not ready.When you are not ready you are ready……You think you knowBut you don’t know.. – Deyth Banger
  4. It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners! – Louisa May Alcott
  5. I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. – Louisa May Alcott
  6. Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Harold Holzer
  7. -¦for action is always easier than quiet waiting. – Louisa May Alcott
  8. She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. – Louisa May Alcott
  9. Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. – Louisa May Alcott
  10. Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can – Louisa May Alcott
  11. She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain – Louisa May Alcott
  12. I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. – Louisa May Alcott
  13. -¦what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. – Louisa May Alcott
  14. The emerging woman … will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied…strength and beauty must go together. – Louisa May Alcott
  15. Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. – Louisa May Alcott
  16. -¦on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. – Louisa May Alcott
  17. -¦proved that woman isn’t a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. – Louisa May Alcott
  18. I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. – Louisa May Alcott
  19. The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. – Louisa May Alcott
  20. Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. – Louisa May Alcott
  21. Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. – Louisa May Alcott
  22. -¦marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties. – Louisa May Alcott
  23. I wish I had no heart, it aches so-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  24. The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. – Louisa May Alcott
  25. -¦she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. – Louisa May Alcott
  26. Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. – Louisa May Alcott
  27. -¦nothing remained but loneliness and grief-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  28. I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  29. Send me all the advice you like. I’ll use as much as I can. – Louisa May Alcott
  30. -¦possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. – Louisa May Alcott
  31. …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 them copy. – Louisa May Alcott
  32. 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
  33. Be worthy love, and love will come. – Louisa May Alcott
  34. ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. – Louisa May Alcott
  35. Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty… – Louisa May Alcott
  36. …the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn’t like it. – Louisa May Alcott
  37. I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  38. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  39. Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage – Louisa May Alcott
  40. There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty. – Louisa May Alcott

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