Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

"Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for."
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"Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for."
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
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"Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace."
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
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"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."
Louisa May Alcott
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"Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can."
Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom
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"Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."
Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase
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"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
Louisa May Alcott Work: A Story of Experience
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"I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream."
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
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"But he will be all the better fitted for business, because of the help it [sport] gives him. Polish is easily added if the foundations are strong, but no amount of gilding will be of use if your timber is not sound."
Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
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"Let the girl run and shout as much as she will- it is a sure sign of health, and as natural to a happy child as frisking is to any young animal full of life. Tomboys make strong women"
Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
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"I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them."
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
Louisa May Alcott
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"Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us."
Louisa May Alcott Little Men
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius."
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
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"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
Louisa May Alcott
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"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"
Louisa May Alcott
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"Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged."
Louisa May Alcott
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"He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. He who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
Louisa May Alcott
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"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."
Louisa May Alcott
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"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
Louisa May Alcott
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"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
Louisa May Alcott
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