“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
“I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
“I like good strong words that mean something …”
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
“Don’t try to make me grow up before my time …”
“Let us be elegant or die!”
“Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
“I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
“Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.”
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, published 30th September 1868