I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
Louisa May Alcottโฆoften between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
Louisa May AlcottThe girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.
Louisa May Alcott