Jo March Quotes

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

“Women. They have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition. And they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it. But I’m so lonely.”
― Greta Gerwig, Little Women: The Screenplay

“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle--something heroic, or wonderful--that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, "It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you; so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

“Perhaps Louisa didn't need to detail what Marmee is so angry about nearly every day of her life. To be a woman is to know anger. To be underestimated, treated as inferior, have one's concerns classified as minor, to do all the work and receive none of the glory--how could one not feel angry? And yet in order to be a good woman who stands a chance at being loved and accepted, back then and still very much so now, one has to learn, as Marmee advises Jo, not to show it, even better not to feel it. Anger in a woman runs the risk of being pathologized, penalized, criminalized. A woman is supposed to bear the violence of patriarchy--both the bloody and the bloodless forms--with unflappable cheeriness (p.66)”
― Jenny Zhang, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

“What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie.
"Margaret."
"Which do you like the best?"
"Jo, of course."
"What silly questions you ask!" and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone”
― Louisa May Alcott

“There should always be one old maid in a family.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“You say often you wish a library. Here I gif you one, for between these lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much, for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world and paint it with your pen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Where are you going?” Amy asks.


“To speak my truth,” I reply, then add quietly, “even if my voice shakes.”
― Marina Hill, Little Writer

“To Beth, there isn’t an illness or sour mood that cats or a walk in the garden can’t heal.”
― Marina Hill, Little Writer

“But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men, and how can they do it except by their manners? Preaching does not do any good, as I know to my sorrow, since I’ve had Teddy to manage; but there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word, and I say we ought to do it to others if we can.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I'm always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her; it's my doom, and I can't help it.'
- Jo March”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“—Ya no parece mi Jo, pero la quiero aún más por ello.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“Ser testigo de aquellos momentos enseñó a Jo más que el sermón más sabio, el himno más santo y la oración más fervorosa jamás pronunciada”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“De haber sido la protagonista de un libro de contenido moral, en ese momento de su vida, Jo se hubiese transformado en santa, hubiese renunciado al mundo y se hubiese dedicado a recorrer los caminos haciendo el bien, con un sencillo sombrero y los bolsillos llenos de panfletos. Pero lo cierto es que Jo no era una protagonista de una novela, sino una joven real, que luchaba por salir adelante en la vida, como hacen cientos de mujeres, y actuó conforme a su naturaleza, sintiéndose enfadada, triste, lánguida o animada según los casos.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“—No entiendo. ¿Qué puede haber en una historia tan corta y sencilla para que la gente la alabe de ese modo? —preguntó con auténtica perplejidad.

—Es una obra sincera, Jo, ése es su secreto, y el humor y el pathos le dan la vida. Creo que al fin has encontrado tu estilo. Has escrito sin pensar en la fama o el dinero y has puesto tu corazón en el texto, hija mía. Tú has probado lo amargo, ahora viene lo dulce.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“La felicidad de Amy había avivado su deseo de amar a alguien con toda la fuerza de su alma y su corazón, alguien de quien no se separaría nunca mientras Dios lo permitiese.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“Jo se debió quedar dormida (como imagino que le habrá ocurrido al lector tras este pequeño sermón).”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“Echaré de menos a mi joven amigo, pero querré tanto o más al hombre en el que te has convertido y te admiraré porque harás lo posible por ser quien yo creía que podías ser.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“Echaré de menos a mi joven amigo, pero querré tanto o más al hombre en el que te has convertido y te admiraré porque harás lo posible por ser quien yo creía que podrías ser.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“No les preocupaba lo que pensaran los demás, ya que para ellos había llegado ese momento de felicidad que sólo se conoce una vez en la vida. Un instante mágico que proporciona juventud al viejo, belleza a la persona corriente, riqueza al pobre, y que da al corazón humano una muestra de lo que se siente estar en el cielo.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“No he perdido la esperanza de escribir un buen libro algún día, pero puedo esperar y estoy segura de que será mejor, porque podré inspirarme en escenas como ésta.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“But there is little room for anything but truth in the fresh gnaw of becoming.”
― Tess Sharpe, Great or Nothing