Biography

American writer of classic children's fiction, best remembered for her novel "Little Women" (1868), an account of her own impoverished childhood and her close relationships with her siblings and parents.

Worked as a nurse in a union hospital in Georgetown during the American Civil War.

Pictured on the 5¢ US postage stamp in the Famous American/Authors series, issued 5 February 1940.

Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.

Lived her entire life in Boston and Concord.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.