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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: inspirational-ship-storms
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: genius, little-women, louisa-may-alcott, talent
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, loneliness, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, poetry, prose
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    Greta Gerwig
    “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
    tags: feminism, feminist, jo-march, little-women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: independence, jo, little-women, louisa-may-alcott, single
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    William Shakespeare
    “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
    tags: fame, independence, self-worth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Madeleine K. Albright
    “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

    (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
    ― Madeleine Albright
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    711 likes



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