About Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women follows the ambitions, mistakes, work and changing relationships of the March sisters. Its memorable lines belong to fictional speakers at particular stages of their lives, so character and chapter remain important to their meaning.
How these quotations are verified
Wording is checked against the Project Gutenberg public-domain edition of Little Women. Records name the chapter and avoid shortening a character’s speech into a different claim.