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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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott (Author) | Keywords: dreadfully
«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.»
«Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie?»

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