Little Women

"Home is a pleasant place"

"I think secrets are the root of all sorts of trouble"

"It's nice to be loved"

"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them was not worth ruling"

"I wish to be a lady when I grow up"

"Poverty has its advantages"

"I intend to make a fine lady of myself"

"We are all selfish, I'm afraid"

"I'd rather be a free spinster with a pen"

"Don't you feel that it is pleasanter to help one another, to have daily duties which make leisure sweet when it comes?"

"I am more ambitious than I am wise"

"The world is a hard place, Beth, and we all must learn to bear our burdens"

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship"

"I don't see why I can't love you as you want me to"

"Girls are caterpillars here and ought to be butterflies there"

"I hope you love me always"

"Art is a very tempestuous profession"

"Love will make small cabins pleasant or large palaces miserable"

"Being angry never helps anything"

"I think my family is peculiar"

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes"

"I'd like to be a boy"

"Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so"

"I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe"

"One can't love and be wise"

"I wish I could be a boy; then I wouldn't have to wear skirts and couldn't I do lots of hard things?"

"It's nice to have accomplishments and be able to show them"

"I am angry nearly every day of my life"

"I do hope we shall have a happy life together."