Louisa May Alcott - Women 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
After toiling so many years along the uphill road — always a hard one to women writers — it is peculiarly grateful to me to find the way growing easier at last, with pleasant little surprises blossoming on either side, and the rough places made smooth by the courtesy and kindness of those who have proved themselves friends as well as publishers.

Louisa May Alcott
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.

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
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Louisa May Alcott
Began the second part of 'Little Women.'... Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only end and aim of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please any one.

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

Louisa May Alcott
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Louisa May Alcott