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We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for!

We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

Louisa May Alcott
Baby, Heart, Ambition
Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Work: A Story of Experience: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.706, Library of America

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

Louisa May Alcott
Ambition, Ideas, Little Women
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…”, p.331, e-artnow

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