More from Louisa May Alcott

  1. I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
  2. It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
  3. 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 wi…
  4. Love is a great beautifier.
  5. I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
  6. Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
  7. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me an…
  8. Many argue; not many converse.

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