You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.