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We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~
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Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam rises high, And sturdily wash, and rinse, and wring, And fasten the clothes to dry; Then out in the free fresh air they swing, Under the sunny sky. I wish we could wash from our hearts and our souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they; Then on the earth there would be indeed A glorious washing-day! Along the path of a useful ..
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Perhaps he's my curse. Perhaps I'm his weakness. Together we left the world in ruins.
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Elizabeth May |
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Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.
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Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.
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Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her...
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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants...
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I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!
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We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
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Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.
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We burn bright, and we burn out. That's what it means to be human.
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Elizabeth May |
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Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I should watch and work to keep his little daughters safe and good for him. Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn't cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering. I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. Why should I complain, when we both have merely d..
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She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor
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Crimson suits you best.
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Elizabeth May |
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He opens one bottle and holds it out to me. 'Drink this one.' Inside is a milky blue liquid with what looks like thin slivers of glass floating in it. Surely he doesn't mean for me to drink glass. 'Am I going to regret consuming its contents?' 'No. But I imagine you'll still call me every expletive you can possibly think of.' He presses it into my palm. 'I don't like the sound of that.' I sniff the vial and scrunch up my nose at a sharp tan..
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Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
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Kiaran and I have little connection beyond our names. We battle, bleed and hunt together almost every night. He teaches me how to slaughter in the most effective, brutal ways possible. But I've never told Kiaran why I hunt, and he has never told me why he kills his own kind. This is our ritual, our dance. The only one that matters.
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Elizabeth May |
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Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked m..
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The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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He loved you so much that when you died, he might as well have died with you.
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One day, you'll tell people the story of the faery king and the human girl. And how he watched from afar as she lived out twenty thousand human days. And if she listened closely during winter, when the wind was cold and the nights were longest, she could hear him whisper that he cherished her so much he was willing to give her the world.
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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!
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But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!
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Louisa May Alcott |
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Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.
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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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Well," I say brightly, "we're getting on splendidly, aren't we? Glad to see you're all becoming friends over your mutually violent desires."
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Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
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nothing remained but loneliness and grief...
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she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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That's what family does: They bring home with them.
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Elizabeth May |
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strength and beauty must go hand in hand
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Louisa May Alcott |
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Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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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; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Louisa May Alcott |
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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart
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Louisa May Alcott |
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I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world...
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Louisa May Alcott |
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My ears are bleeding. I have a nasty headache. I'm trapped in a room with a murderous faery and I blame you." "That's fair."
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Elizabeth May |
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When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.
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