-¦I’m always ready to talk, shouldn’t be a woman if I were not,’ laughed Mrs. Jo-¦
– Louisa May Alcott
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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. – Louisa May Alcott
- 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
- The emerging woman … will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied…strength and beauty must go together. – Louisa May Alcott
- -¦proved that woman isn’t a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. – Louisa May Alcott
- 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
- …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
- …the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn’t like it. – Louisa May Alcott
- -¦for action is always easier than quiet waiting. – Louisa May Alcott
- She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. – Louisa May Alcott
- Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. – Louisa May Alcott
- Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can – Louisa May Alcott
- She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain – Louisa May Alcott
- -¦having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
- 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
- -¦what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. – Louisa May Alcott
- Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. – Louisa May Alcott
- -¦on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. – Louisa May Alcott
- The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. – Louisa May Alcott
- Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. – Louisa May Alcott
- It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners! – Louisa May Alcott
- Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. – Louisa May Alcott
- -¦marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties. – Louisa May Alcott
- I wish I had no heart, it aches so-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
- 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
- -¦she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. – Louisa May Alcott
- I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
- Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. – Louisa May Alcott
- -¦nothing remained but loneliness and grief-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
- I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. – Louisa May Alcott
- I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
- Send me all the advice you like. I’ll use as much as I can. – Louisa May Alcott
- -¦possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. – 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
- Be worthy love, and love will come. – Louisa May Alcott
- ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. – Louisa May Alcott
- Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty… – Louisa May Alcott
- I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
- Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
- Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage – Louisa May Alcott
- There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty. – Louisa May Alcott