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It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners!

It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
– Louisa May Alcott

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  1. Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. – Louisa May Alcott
  2. 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
  3. …the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn’t like it. – Louisa May Alcott
  4. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  5. Just as evil communication and company corrupts good manners, good communication and company can correct bad manners – Chiolu Hope N
  6. Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. – Louisa May Alcott
  7. Maybe before you start flirting with boys and kissing boys and trying to date boys, you should know who you are and where you stand. – Jill Santopolo
  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. -¦having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay-¦ – 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’m always ready to talk, shouldn’t be a woman if I were not,’ laughed Mrs. Jo-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  19. The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. – Louisa May Alcott
  20. Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. – Louisa May Alcott
  21. -¦marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties. – Louisa May Alcott
  22. I wish I had no heart, it aches so-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  23. 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
  24. -¦she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. – Louisa May Alcott
  25. I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world-¦ – 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 do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods. – Louisa May Alcott
  29. I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me-¦ – Louisa May Alcott
  30. Send me all the advice you like. I’ll use as much as I can. – Louisa May Alcott
  31. -¦possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. – Louisa May Alcott
  32. -¦for action is always easier than quiet waiting. – Louisa May Alcott
  33. …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
  34. 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
  35. Be worthy love, and love will come. – Louisa May Alcott
  36. ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. – Louisa May Alcott
  37. Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty… – Louisa May Alcott
  38. I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that-¦ – 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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