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

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.