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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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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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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.
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The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
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I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
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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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Love is a great beautifier.
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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
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Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)
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I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.
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. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
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