Quotes from Louisa May Alcott

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

I hate ordinary people!

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

Woman work a great many miracles.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

Love covers a multitude of sins…

I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!

the violin — that most human of all instruments…

I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.