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Where the heart is the mind works best.
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
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Suffragette
Teacher
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Heart
Mind
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But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
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Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
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O vanity, mislead no more!
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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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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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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
Louisa May Alcott
I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
Louisa May Alcott
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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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.
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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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 love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
Louisa May Alcott
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
Louisa May Alcott
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
Louisa May Alcott
I'm tired of praise and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
Louisa May Alcott
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
Louisa May Alcott
Every house needs a grandmother in it.
Louisa May Alcott
