Louisa May Alcott Quotes - Page 7

You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

People cannot be molded like clay.

Woman work a great many miracles.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

Mothers can forgive anything!

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

…men never forgive like women.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.