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Letter "L" » Louisa May Alcott Quotes
«A startled or surprised look from one of you when I spoke sharply rebuked me more than any words could have done, and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.»
«She was the first of her kind, ... She was a woman living in a man's world and succeeding in a man's world.»
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«If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.»
«People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.»
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«Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.»
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«People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.»
«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. in Little Women»
«It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.»
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«Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie?»
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