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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
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Germantown
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A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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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 was thinking what a curious thing love is only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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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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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
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But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
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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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Life is like college may I graduate and earn some honors.
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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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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
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I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
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Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
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