897 Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.

You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can’t explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women.

For these foolish, affectionate people made a jubilee of every little household joy.

By-and-by we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one’s rights and doubles one’s duties.

What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?

I don’t like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

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 want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good; to be admired, loved, and respected, to have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.