Quotes from Alcott, Louisa May

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.

I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.