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
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…
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
Money is a needful and precious thing
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.