Jo Little Women Quotes

#1. The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

Nancy Willard

#3. I firmly believe that every boy needs his mom to love him and every girl needs her dad to pay attention to her.

Amy Poehler

#4. Who are your heroes?" asked Jo.
"Grandfather and Napoleon.

Louisa May Alcott

#5. I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.

Sue Townsend

#6. ... if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.

Louisa May Alcott

#8. I love you, don't I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you're at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply.
Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear' is still more trying to us.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally ...

Louisa May Alcott

#11. Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her ...

Louisa May Alcott

#13. Christopher Columbus

Louisa May Alcott

#14. Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only aim and end of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. ... Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something ...

Louisa May Alcott

#16. Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.

Andrea Brown

#17. Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Patti Smith

#18. What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie.
"Margaret."
"Which do you like the best?"
"Jo, of course."
"What silly questions you ask!" and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone

Louisa May Alcott

#19. Welcome. Come on in to me world.

Tristan MacManus

#20. Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

John Keats

#21. ... Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

Louisa May Alcott

#22. Is that my boy?'
As sure as this is my girl!

Louisa May Alcott

#23. Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot