Abby May Alcott Quotes

United States, Activist
October 8, 1800 – November, 25, 1877.

Abigail "Abba" Alcott May was an activist for several causes and one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts. She was the wife of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and mother of four daughters, including Civil War novelist Louisa May Alcott.

Let the world know you are alive!

Abby May Alcott
- World
- Know
- Alive
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
- Love
- Moods
- Tenses

Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

Abby May Alcott
- Girls
- Taught
- Appear
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
- Women
- Nature
- Yoke
I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences in my journal, than I do in reading much. Novels, even if they are good, pass out of my memory very rapidly. I enjoy it as I should a scene at the theatre; but am not essentially benefited by the incidents or morals. What more desirable at this period of my life than to find sources of daily peace and joy from within; that I think is true life.

Abby May Alcott
- Life
- Experiences
- Novels
Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

Abby May Alcott
- Flowers
- Crushed
- Odour
Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

Abby May Alcott
- Sorrow
- Selfish