What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Better lose your life than your soul.

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.