Louisa May Alcott - Men Quotes

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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.

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

Louisa May Alcott
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Louisa May Alcott
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.

Louisa May Alcott
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.

Louisa May Alcott
Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

Louisa May Alcott
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Louisa May Alcott
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…

Louisa May Alcott
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are.

Louisa May Alcott
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Louisa May Alcott
I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Louisa May Alcott