Emma Watson: Meg March

Little Women

Meg March

Meg March: I can't believe today is my wedding day!
Jo March: Me neither.
Meg March: What's wrong?
Jo March: Nothing.
Meg March: Jo...
Jo March: We can leave. We can leave right now.
Meg March: What?
Jo March: I can make money: I'll sell stories, I'll do anything - cook, clean, work in a factory. I can make a life for us.
Meg March: But, Jo...
Jo March: And you, you should be an actress and have a life on the stage. Let's run away together.
Meg March: I want to get married.
Jo March: Why?
Meg March: I love him.
Jo March: You will be bored of him in two years and we will be interesting forever.
Meg March: Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn't mean they're unimportant. I want a home and a family and I'm willing to work and struggle, but I want to do it with John.
Jo March: I just hate that you're leaving me. Don't leave.
Meg March: Oh, Jo, I'm not leaving you. Besides, one day it will be your turn.
Jo March: I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. I would. I can't believe childhood is over.
Meg March: It was going to end one way or another. And what a happy end.

Jo March: When is Amy coming home?
Marmee March: We didn't want to worry her.
Jo March: Does she not know?
Meg March: Beth insisted we not tell her because she didn't want to ruin Amy's trip.
Jo March: Amy has always had a talent for getting out of the hard parts of life.
Marmee March: Jo, don't be angry with your sister...

Jo March: Who would be interested in a story of - domestic struggles and joys? It doesn't have any real importance.
Amy March: Maybe we don't see those things as important because people don't write about them.
Jo March: No, writing doesn't confer importance, it reflects it.
Amy March: I don't think so. Writing them will make them more important.
Jo March: When did you become so wise?
Amy March: I always have been, you were just too busy noticing my faults.
Meg March: Which weren't there, of course.

Meg March: Don't stare, don't put your hands behind your back, don't say Christopher Columbus, don't say Capital, don't shake hands, don't whistle.

Meg March: I wish I had heaps of money and plenty of servants, so I never had to work again.
Jo March: You could be a proper actress on the boards. They aren't all fallen women.
Meg March: I can't be an actress.
Amy March: I have lots of wishes, but my favorite one is to be an artist in Paris and do fine pictures, and to be the best painter in the world.
Beth March: That's what you want too, isn't it Jo? To be a famous writer?
Jo March: Yes, but it sounds so crass when she says it.
Amy March: Why be ashamed of what you want?
Jo March: I'm not.
Beth March: My wish is to have us all to be together with Father and Mother in this house. That's what I want.
Amy March: Beth is perfect.

Meg March: It's so dreadful being poor.
Amy March: It's not fair. How come some girls get to have lots of pretty things and others have nothing at all.

Meg March: I know what it is to want little things and feel less than other girls.

Meg March: I know it's silly, but please don't tell Jo. Let me have my fun tonight. I'll be desperately good for the rest of my life.

Marmee March: Just be who you are - and wear this to the ball. It was mine when I was your age. I've never understood saving jewelry until marriage. You should have something that's just yours. Pretty things should be enjoyed.
Meg March: Yes, pretty things should be enjoyed.

Meg March: Weekly report: Meg - good, Jo - bad, Beth - very good, and Amy - sort of middling.