Madeleine B. Stern > Quotes

“The time had come to capture thought once again in a net of words.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott: A Biography

“[Nineteenth-century professional women's] end was pertinent and and timely--economic independence. To achieve that end, they upheld, unconsciously as often as consciously, women's most vivid tricolor: freedom of work, equality in the rewards of work, fraternity in trade and in profession. And though, with such a feather pinned to their jaunty caps, they fought the bloodless revolution of the nineteenth century, their contemporaries and sometimes themselves were unaware of what they had accomplished.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America

“[Louisa May Alcott] made no alterations and no copies, for the material upon which she lavished the least time seemed the most successful.”
― Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott: A Biography