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#1

“I love good strong words that mean something.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-attitude-quotes, women-empowerment

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#2

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-ship-storms

3743 likes

#3

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

tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott

1604 likes

#4

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: authors, challenges, keys, writing

1246 likes

#5

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

1609 likes

#6

“Love is a great beautifier.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

876 likes

#7

“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

964 likes

#8

“...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

760 likes

#9

“Let us be elegant or die!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: femininity

759 likes

#10

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

tags: growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott

778 likes

#11

“Be worthy love, and love will come.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

617 likes

#12

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

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, shadow, sunshine

535 likes

#13

“You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: love, quotes, suitors

575 likes

#14

“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

495 likes

#15

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: beginning, beginnings, end, fresh-start, new-leaf, start-over, try-again

450 likes

#16

“I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.”
― Louisa Alcott, Little Women

412 likes

#17

“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

368 likes

#18

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: writing

275 likes

#19

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: reading-books

474 likes

#20

“{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

27 likes

#21

“The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

22 likes

#22

“I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, secrets

23 likes

#23

“But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

22 likes

#24

“Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

20 likes

#25

“I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'm going to find some.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

25 likes

#26

“I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: humor

26 likes

#27

“[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: growing-up, humor, jo, marriage, siblings

18 likes

#28

“When the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

21 likes

#29

“Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!”
― Lousia May Alcott, Little Women

14 likes

#30

“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

tags: independence, jo, little-women, louisa-may-alcott, single

60 likes

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