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Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Louisa May Alcott
Husband, Liberty
Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Cheney (2010). “Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals”, p.197, Applewood Books

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.

Louisa May Alcott
Husband, Independent, Liberty
Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.135, e-artnow

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

Louisa May Alcott
Girl, Running, Husband
Louisa May Alcott (2010). “Little Women”, p.146, Lulu.com

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

Louisa May Alcott
Love, Husband, Fighting
Louisa May Alcott (2001). “Little Women”, p.307, Broadview Press

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