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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
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Men
Give
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.
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If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
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...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.
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Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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People cannot be molded like clay.
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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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Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
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Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
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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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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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We don't choose our talents but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
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...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
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