“When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do.”

— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868), Ch. 41 : Learning To Forget

About Louisa May Alcott

1832 – 1888

American novelist, author of "Little Women".

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

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

“I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”

“Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.”

“I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's; / I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create.”

“There be none of Beauty's daughters with a magic like thee; and like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it.”