More - Louisa May Alcott Quotes

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

Louisa May Alcott

 College

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Louisa May Alcott

 Direction

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests

Louisa May Alcott

 Rivalry

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

 

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

 Learning

If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.

Louisa May Alcott

 

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Louisa May Alcott

 

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.

Louisa May Alcott

 Inheritance Men

He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.

Louisa May Alcott

 

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens.

Louisa May Alcott