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I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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Liberty must not be abused.
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I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
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[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.
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He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away a stranger, yet everyone was his friend no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
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Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.
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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
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Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
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Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
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I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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