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Louisa May Alcott

b: Germantown, Pennsylvannia, Nov 29, 1832

d: Germantown, Pennsylvannia, Mar 6, 1888

American. Author. Her early life in New England described in Little Women, 1868.

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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.

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.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Love is a great beautifier.

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.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

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

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.