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Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor p...more

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The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

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It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, b...more

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…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…

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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to t...more

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Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

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It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, b...more

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Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober go...more

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Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of ...more

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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

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I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.