Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…
La risata è pronta quando il cuore è felice.
It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.
Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring fe...
A long night and a happy day had passed. All had been told...
…the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them.
Money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks. I
Woman work a great many miracles.
We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
Vive la liberte!
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply.Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear...
I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else, said Jo,
I want to do something splendid …
I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor
I make so many beginnings there never will be an end,
By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper)…
Better destroy the body than the soul.' ~Rosamond
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.