“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
A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)
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)
A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)
Amy, in Ch. 42 : All Alone
Little Women (1868)
A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)
Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 11 : Experiments
From an interview with poet and critic Louise Chandler Moulton, 1883.
Source: [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)