Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
Louisa May AlcottThe fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Louisa May Alcott. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Louisa May Alcott