More from Louisa May Alcott

  1. It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
  2. Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
  3. Is it not meningitis?
  4. Many argue; not many converse.
  5. 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.
  6. Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
  7. 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…
  8. Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

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