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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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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Strong
Souled
Together
Bodied
Women
Emerging
Must
Hearted
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Strength
Beauty

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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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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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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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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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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
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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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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
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I'm tired of praise and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
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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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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
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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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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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O vanity, mislead no more!
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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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