123 Quotes About Little-women

But I was going to say that while I was dawdling about abroad, I saw a good many talented young fellows making all sorts of sacrifices, and enduring real hardships, that they might realize their dreams. Splendid fellows, some of them, working like heroes, poor and friendless, but so full of courage, patience and ambition, that I was ashamed of myself, and longed to give them a right good lift.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.""They're not empty now.

…wisely mingled poetry and prose.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

...I don't believe that I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place.