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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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
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A. M. Barnard
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Flora Fairchild
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A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
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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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