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
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.
The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
…men never forgive like women.
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!
I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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.