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

— Louisa May Alcott

“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 just for the fun of it.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“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

“The invigorating air did them both good, and much exercise worked wholesome changes in minds as well as bodies. They seemed to get clearer views of life and duty up there among…”

— Louisa May Alcott

“I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Those are not rogue nations behaving irresponsibly. They are allies, no less moral than we are.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Some people are able to accept living with a severe disability. I am not one of them, and that is why I have a keen interest in research and am deeply disturbed by unreasonable…”

— Christopher Reeve

“The life expectancy for Americans has practically doubled over the course of this century. Now it is our responsibility to ensure that from cradle to grave, these years are ones…”

— Christopher Reeve

“In the last hundred years, we invented the automobile, the airplane, and weapons of mass destruction. We journeyed to the moon and built shiny new cities throughout the country.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Sitting in a chair for more than 4 years now has given me plenty of time to think about many of the distorted and irrational values in our society.”

— Christopher Reeve

“In scientific terms, we are very close to achieving the impossible; in practical terms, we have a long way to go.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Our scientists are on the threshold of major breakthroughs in almost every disease or condition that now cause so much hardship for people across the country and around the world.”

— Christopher Reeve

“That was something thought impossible until we put money and talent together and aimed it toward a problem.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Now that would have been science fiction a few years ago, but it's here and it's happening and it doesn't matter whether it's an acute injury or a chronic injury.”

— Christopher Reeve

“I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another’s river views.”

— John Cheever

“All literary men are Red Sox fans—to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”

— John Cheever

“My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”

— John Cheever

“He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosalie knew that he was still outside the gates.”

— John Cheever

“I'm wicked, as you say, and I'm rude and I'm boorish and I discovered, after marrying Mr Scaddon, that I could be all these things and worse and that there would still be plenty…”

— John Cheever

“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under…”

— John Cheever

“He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it…”

— John Cheever

“The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man’s complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.”

— John Cheever