Abby May Alcott Quotes

• 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.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Yoke

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• Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

  Abby May Alcott

  Girl, Taught, Seems

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• Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

  Abby May Alcott

  Flower, Giving, Sorrow

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• Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

  Abby May Alcott

  Selfish, Sorrow

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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

  Father, Wife, Verbs

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