Abby May Alcott famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.
-- Abby May Alcott

#Girl #Taught #Hotel
Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
-- Abby May Alcott

#Flower #Giving #Sorrow
Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?
-- Abby May Alcott

#Selfish #Sorrow
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
-- Abby May Alcott

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[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.
-- Abby May Alcott

#Father #Wife #Verbs

If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
Adjusting to Beau being a caveman over a girl had been almost as hard as seeing him with Ash. Beau didn't do jealous, not until Ashton had become his. Now he was a freaking lunatic.
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

Abby May Alcott famous quotes

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