897 Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

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.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

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 put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.