"I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…












What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
More Louisa May Alcott quotes
"Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
"…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
"Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who...
"And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…
"The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pill...
"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 r...