The Daring Ladies of Lowell Quotes

“Children should have some warning, some way of knowing it was dangerous to look out at the world with unguarded pleasure. But who would want to tell them, to deprive them of those few moments of blissful ignorance that would have to last a lifetime?”
― Kate Alcott, The Daring Ladies of Lowell

“I like my life now," she said. "I don't need it to change."
"But it is changing," Benjamin Stanhope said, "None of us can hold things where we want them to be. It is all slipping and changing, Alice.”
― Kate Alcott, The Daring Ladies of Lowell

“Don’t tar all with the same brush”
― Kate Alcott, The Daring Ladies of Lowell

“settled her ample figure”
― Kate Alcott, The Daring Ladies of Lowell

“Otherwise the people who did the hard, dangerous work at the mill that allowed his family to live in luxury would surely rebel.”
― Kate Alcott, The Daring Ladies of Lowell

“If you want change, you have to push for it.”
― Kate Alcott, The Daring Ladies of Lowell

“Her hand went into her pocket. Would there ever again be a moment quite like this? Out came the dollar, which she flattened smooth onto the display case.”
― Kate Alcott, The Daring Ladies of Lowell

“Girls like herself could write and publish poetry and stories without pretending to be male; no need to hide.”
― Kate Alcott, The Daring Ladies of Lowell