Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do. Abby May Alcott More Quotes by Abby May Alcott More Quotes From Abby May Alcott Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along. Abby May Alcott yoke silence pride Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed. Abby May Alcott sorrow flower giving Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish? Abby May Alcott selfish sorrow [On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably. Abby May Alcott verbs wife father
