Little Women

By Louisa May Alcott QUOTATION: Love is a great beautifier.
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 1 (1869).

QUOTATION: It takes two flints to make a fire.
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Laurie, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 16 (1869).

QUOTATION: Housekeeping ain’t no joke.
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. The cook Hannah, in Little Women, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1868).

QUOTATION: What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Jo March, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 23 (1869).

QUOTATION: Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a commonplace dauber, so I don’t intend to try any more.
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Amy March, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 16 (1869).

QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Amy March, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 16 (1869).

QUOTATION: Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Laurie, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 12 (1869).

QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Meg, in Little Women, pt. 1, ch. 15 (1868).

QUOTATION: Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
ATTRIBUTION: Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Mrs. March, in Little Women, pt. 1, ch. 7 (1868).