Frases célebres de Louisa May Alcott
Original: «Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling».
Fuente: Alcott, Louisa May. An Old-fashioned Girl. Editorial Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873. p. 218.
Fuente: An Old-fashioned Girl, capítulo:13 : The Sunny Side.
Louisa May Alcott Frases y Citas
“El debate es masculino; la conversación es femenina.”
Fuente: Israel, Ricardo. El libro de las verdades. Citas citables. Editorial RIL Editores, 2011. p. 134.
Little Women
Little Women
Original: «Phebe and I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us».
Fuente: Alcott, Louisa May. Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated). Editorial Delphi Classics, 2013. ISBN 9781908909220.
Fuente: Rose in Bloom (1876), capítulo 1 : Coming Home.
“Es un buen libro aquel que se abre con expectación y se cierra con provecho.”
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013. ISBN 978-60-73116-31-2.
Little Women
Original: «The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan».
Fuente: Alcott, Louisa May. An Old-fashioned Girl. Editorial Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873. p. 224.
Fuente: An Old-fashioned Girl, capítulo:13 : The Sunny Side.
Louisa May Alcott: Frases en inglés
From a letter ("Louisa M. Alcott to the American Woman Suffrage Association", October 1885) in support of women's voting rights, quoted in Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, 1883-1900 (1902), p. 412.
Beth's views on the Celestial City, in Ch. 13 : Castles In The Air
Little Women (1868)
“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Amos Bronson Alcott, her father, in Concord Days (1872), p. 124 : "Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. But if one does not stay while staying, better let him go where he is gone the while."
Misattributed
An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Ch. 13 : The Sunny Side; this has often been quoted as "Helping one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood."
“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”
An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Ch. 13 : The Sunny Side
"No, live and forget you", was the unexpected reply.
Phillip and Rosamund, p. 46.
A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)
From an interview with poet and critic Louise Chandler Moulton, 1883.
Fuente: [Alberghene, Janice, Clark, Beverly, Little Women and the Feminist Imagination: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays, 2013, 1999, 9781138798977, Routledge]
“I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.”
Early Diary kept at Fruitlands, 1843. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38049/38049-h/38049-h.htm
Life, Letters, and Journals. (1898)