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I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.

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

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  2. …the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn’t like it. – Louisa May Alcott
  3. Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. – Louisa May Alcott
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  5. It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners! – Louisa May Alcott
  6. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  7. Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. – Louisa May Alcott
  8. I like good strong words that mean something-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  9. -¦proved that woman isn’t a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. – Louisa May Alcott
  10. -¦I’m always ready to talk, shouldn’t be a woman if I were not,’ laughed Mrs. Jo-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  11. …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
  12. I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  13. It’s beautiful when you realise how kind, tender, warm and big-hearted a person is that has suffered too much for their own good. – Diana Jaber
  14. Young girls and mass murders are tender hearted creatures – Pierre Lemaitre
  15. She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. – Louisa May Alcott
  16. Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. – Louisa May Alcott
  17. Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can – Louisa May Alcott
  18. She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain – Louisa May Alcott
  19. -¦having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  20. -¦what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. – Louisa May Alcott
  21. Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. – Louisa May Alcott
  22. -¦on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. – Louisa May Alcott
  23. The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. – Louisa May Alcott
  24. Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. – Louisa May Alcott
  25. -¦marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties. – Louisa May Alcott
  26. I wish I had no heart, it aches so-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  27. 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
  28. -¦she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. – Louisa May Alcott
  29. -¦nothing remained but loneliness and grief-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  30. Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. – Louisa May Alcott
  31. I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. – Louisa May Alcott
  32. I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  33. Send me all the advice you like. I’ll use as much as I can. – Louisa May Alcott
  34. -¦possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. – Louisa May Alcott
  35. -¦for action is always easier than quiet waiting. – Louisa May Alcott
  36. 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
  37. Be worthy love, and love will come. – Louisa May Alcott
  38. ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. – 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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