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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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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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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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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The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
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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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Be worthy love, and love will come.
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[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.
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The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
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There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
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I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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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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To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
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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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Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
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But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
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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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