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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
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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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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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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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
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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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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
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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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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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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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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] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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I hate ordinary people!
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... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.
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The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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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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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.
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