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
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
where I wholly love I wholly trust.
Sympathy is a sweet thing.
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.
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.
Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.