Louisa May Alcott Quotations | Page 4

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.

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

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~