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Louisa May Alcott Quotes

1832–1888 United States

Louisa May Alcott (29 November 1832 – 6 March 1888) was an American novelist best remembered for her novel Little Women (1868).

United States
19th-century poets
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Also known as: Alcott, Louisa May, A long fatal love chase, Little Women

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Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Little Women (1868)

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Little Women (1868)

Lovely weather so far; I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Little Women (1868)

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870)

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Little Women (1868)

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923)

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.

Little Women (1868)

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

Little Women (1868)

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.

Little Women (1868)

It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.

Little Women (1868)

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Life, Letters, and Journals (1898)

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Little Women (1868)

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women. p. 45.

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Little Women (1868)

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.

Rose in Bloom (1876)

I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

Little Women (1868)

Love is a great beautifier.

Little Women (1868)

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Little Women (1868)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Louisa May Alcott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.