Abby May Alcott quotes
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“Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.”
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“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”
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“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.”
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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
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“Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?”
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“I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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