#women

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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I like adventures, and I’m going to find some. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries! ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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I hate ordinary people! ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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But, like all happiness, it did not last long… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

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