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Louisa May Alcottová byla americká spisovatelka, proslavená především dílem Malé ženy , které pojednává o jejím dětství se třemi sestrami v městečku Concord v americkém Massachusetts. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. listopad 1832 – 6. březen 1888   •   Další jména Լուիզա Մեյ Օլքոթ
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„Pro mnohé z nás je svoboda lepším manželem než láska.“

Originál: (en) …, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
Zdroj: [Cheney, Ednah, 2010, Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals, Applewood Books, 197, angličtina]

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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”

Louisa May Alcott kniha Malé ženy

Amy, in Ch. 44 : My Lord and Lady
Varianta: I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Zdroj: Little Women (1868)

“I wish I had no heart, it aches so…”

Louisa May Alcott kniha Malé ženy

Zdroj: Little Women

Louisa May Alcott citát: “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

Varianta: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

“Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.”

Louisa May Alcott kniha Malé ženy

Zdroj: Little Women (1868), Ch. 36 : Beth's Secret
Kontext: Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come. She did not rebuke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself. She could not say, "I'm glad to go," for life was very sweet for her. She could only sob out, "I try to be willing," while she held fast to Jo, as the first bitter wave of this great sorrow broke over them together.

“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Zdroj: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”

Louisa May Alcott kniha Work: A Story of Experience

Varianta: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Zdroj: Work: A Story of Experience

“When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do.”

Louisa May Alcott kniha Malé ženy

Zdroj: Little Women (1868), Ch. 41 : Learning To Forget
Kontext: When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

“I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.”

Louisa May Alcott kniha Malé ženy

Marmee March to Jo, in Ch. 8 : Jo Meets Apollyon
Little Women (1868)
Kontext: You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it. … I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. … I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

“Love is a great beautifier.”

Louisa May Alcott kniha Malé ženy

Zdroj: Little Women (1868), Ch. 24 : Gossip

“Let us be elegant or die!”

Louisa May Alcott kniha Malé ženy

Varianta: ... but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
Zdroj: Little Women

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