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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
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Souled
Together
Bodied
Women
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Hearted
Minded
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Beauty
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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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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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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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The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.
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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
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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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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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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
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Life is like college may I graduate and earn some honors.
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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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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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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
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