The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

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 right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.

{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 had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.