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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Marriage
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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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.
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Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
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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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I hate ordinary people!
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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I don't like favors they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
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Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.
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Be worthy love, and love will come.
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To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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Mothers can forgive anything!
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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.
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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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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay I wanted the right thing done.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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