Louisa May Alcott

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

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

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.