... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been
Louisa May AlcottMarmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? Youโre ready to go out and โ and find a good use for your talent. Thoโ I donโt know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.
Louisa May AlcottThe small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
Louisa May Alcott. . . 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.
Louisa May Alcott