"I intend to make my own way in the world.” — Jo March

“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. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.” — Jo March

“The world is hard on ambitious girls.’ — Amy March

“I’m just a woman. And as a woman, I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money, which I don’t, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him, not me. They would be his property. So don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition, because it is.” —Amy March

“I’ll be homesick for you. Even in heaven." — Beth March

"Writing doesn’t confer importance, it reflects it.” — Jo March

“Girls have to go out into the world and make up their own minds about things.” — Marmee