. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on

…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.