We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.