Quotes About Alcott

I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

Butter is true divinity

It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment...

in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

I've had a lot of troubles, so I write jolly tales.

Do you consider shoes unhealthy? he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest

Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in dispare.

and I shall think her very mean indeed if she does not give me some of her gloves, for she has many of them, I've seen them myself.......and as you can see, I took the hint.......but not much love went into THAT package did it, my dear?

Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true

Genius. Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie? And she slyly smiled in his disappointed face.

capricious impulse, and, withdrawing

for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart

That's the interferingest chap I ever see

the smile vanished, and presently a tear lay shining on the window ledge. Beth whisked it off, and

George is regularly jolly; though now he's a minister

Dirty old hole, isn't it? The dirt is picturesque so I don't mind.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

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.

I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.

A short distance away, just outside the town of Harvard, Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands dream lives on in a way he could not have imagined, as an intriguing museum and a place of exceptional beauty.

The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.

Don't laugh at the spinsters,…for often very tender, tragical romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns," Alcott pleads.