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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
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