{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.

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

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.