Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women (1868).

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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
- Source: Little Women

"Housekeeping ain't no joke."
- Source: Little Women

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
- Source: Little Women (chapter 1)

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"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
"Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood."
"I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. "
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
"I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal."
"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."
"I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us."
"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."
"Love is a great beautifier."
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
"Many argue; not many converse."
"Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide."
"Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything."
"People don't have fortunes left them -- nowadays; men have to work, and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world...."
"Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her."
"'Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."