People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

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

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.