When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.
Louisa May AlcottMen are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
Louisa May AlcottRight Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
Louisa May AlcottIf I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
Louisa May Alcott