Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcottwas an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Womenand its sequels Little Menand Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 November 1832
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.
I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Dolls are safe companions.
I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.
Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.
Liberty must not be abused.
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.
I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.