…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

{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.

But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.