Louisa May Alcott Giving Quotations

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.

…men never forgive like women.

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

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

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

Mothers can forgive anything!

They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...