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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

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
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
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In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
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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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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
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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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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
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