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This reads as a statement about trust inside the family, especially the way a child can hold a parent in unquestioned esteem. It can be taken to mean that happiness comes from a secure, loving bond that has not been shaken by doubt. It lands in memories of childhood or in reflections on how much comfort a child takes from a parent’s steadiness.
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About Louisa May Alcott
American novelist, short story writer, and poet
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. Raised in New England by transcendentalist parents, she wrote in the 19th century and is best known for Little Women and its sequels. Her most familiar work is Little Women, first published in 1868, followed by Good Wives, Little Men, and Jo's Boys. She began writing young, encouraged by her family, and grew up among prominent intellectuals such as Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
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Faith: more sayings
- “Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back.”Philip K. Dick
- “I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much that it…”Andrew Kendall
- “How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to…”Nikki Rosen
Happiness: more sayings
- “If the creators of cartoons are intentionally or unintentionally giving children the idea that gay people are…”Jacob Weisberg
- “Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a…”G.G. Renee Hill
- “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never gro…”Franz Kafka
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Books by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
1996
Jo's Boys
1886
Eight cousins
2005
Little men
1913
Flower Fables
1854