Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcottwas an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Womenand its sequels Little Menand Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 November 1832
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Louisa May Alcott quotes about
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
Never use a long word when a short one will do
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Let us be elegant or die! --Amy
Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
I could have been a great many things.
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.