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 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.
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.