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“Mrs. March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and when it was possible she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna. "Very well, Amy, if your heart is set upon it, and you see your way through without too great an outlay of money, time, and temper, I'll say no more. Talk it over with the girls, and whichever way you decide, I'll do my best to help you.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It took more than one woman to do things differently. It took a world of them.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“Perhaps that was why she had spent her childhood with a book in front of her face, trying to make sense of her life through stories. Books were her only reliable source of comfort, her only hope.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man