Little Women Quotes

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Louisa May Alcott
“I like good strong words that mean something…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I wish I had no heart, it aches so…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty now.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”
Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott
“Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I hate ordinary people!”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.”
Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott
“…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“Love covers a multitude of sins…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“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…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“But, like all happiness, it did not last long…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
“In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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