Louisa May Alcott Quotes


When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.


Citations

Alcott, Louisa May. Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals. Edited by Ednah D. Cheney, Roberts Brothers, 1889.

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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
  • Born: November 29, 1832
  • Died: March 6, 1888
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Louisa May Alcott (/ˈɔːlkət, -kɒt/; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.