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I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
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Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
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Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.
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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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Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
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Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.
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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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Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you? Fly at me again. I rather liked it, said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.
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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
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A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
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