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
If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it…
I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.
John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
Many argue; not many converse.
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.