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

- Abby May Alcott

Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

- Abby May Alcott

[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 …

- Abby May Alcott

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 t…

- Abby May Alcott

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

- Abby May Alcott