Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Little Women is my favorite movie adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s book, Little Women. Some of the 2019 Little Women movie quotes took my breath away, especially Amy’s speech about marriage. Some of these quotes do overlap with the book, but these are over 50 of the best Little Women quotes from the 2019 movie adaptation.
2019 Little Women Movie Quotes
Little Women has been nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards! It was most certainly in my top 3 movies of 2019.
Some of these movie quotes from Little Women are inspiring, while some are infuriating. And others are quite funny. That’s what made me love this movie so much! Check out my review if you want to know whether Little Women is kid friendly.
Here are some of the best and most ridiculous quotes from the March sisters and family including Jo, Amy, Meg, Beth, Aunt March, and Marmee.
Morals don’t sell nowadays. -Mr. Dashwood
The country just went through a war. People want to be entertained, not preached at. – Mr. Dashwood
If the main character is a girl, make sure she is married by the end. Or dead. Either way.-Mr. Dashwood
These French women couldn’t lift a hairbrush. -Aunt March
He’ll be so pleased with how you look, he’ll forget all about the expense. -Sallie
Meg, you’ll kill yourself for fashion one of these days. – Marmee
I detest rude and unladylike girls. -Amy
I wish we could help other people at a time convenient to us. -Jo
It’s possible to be right and foolish. -Aunt March
I don’t think so. -Jo
Well you’re not paid to think. -Aunt March
Don’t sneak around. I don’t like sneaks. -Aunt March
Don’t let the sun go down on your anger. Forgive her and start again tomorrow. – Marmee
I get in a passion, and I get so savage. I’d hurt anyone and enjoy it. -Jo
Pretty things should be enjoyed. -Marmee
You are the rudest boy I ever saw. -Meg
We are a bunch of ungrateful minxes. -Jo
Let me have my fun tonight. I’ll be desperately good for the rest of my life. -Meg
I think you will marry, Jo. And you’ll live and die for them, because that’s your way. And I’ll watch. -Laurie
What women are allowed into the club of geniuses anyway? -Laurie
I’ve never wished for money more than now. -Meg
It’s like the tide going out. It rolls out slowly, but it can’t be stopped. -Beth
I’ll stop it. I’ve stopped it before. -Jo
You must marry well. You are your family’s hope now. It will be up to you to support them all. Save your family. -Aunt March
Jo! Your hair! Your one beauty. -Amy
It doesn’t effect the fate of the nation, so don’t wail. -Jo
Thank God you’re home. Now I can be angry with you in person. -Marmee
I may not always be right. But I am never wrong. -Aunt March
Women. They have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition. And they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it. But I’m so lonely. -Jo
Beth was the best of us. -Amy
Amy has always had a talent for getting out of the hard parts of life. -Jo
What a disappointment he turned out to be. Must be the Italian in him. -Aunt March
Life is too short to be angry at one’s sisters. -Jo
I doubt that a sincere friend would be deterred. -Marmee
Do you love him? -Marmee
I care more to be loved. I want to be loved. -Jo
That’s not the same as loving. -Marmee
When did you get so wise? -Jo
I always have been. You were too busy noticing my faults. -Amy
I promise honesty and whatever intelligence I can muster. -Friedrich
I’ll polish up all my other talents and become an ornament to society. -Amy
If I was a girl in a book this would be easy. Just give up the world happily. -Jo
Writing doesn’t confer importance. It reflects it. -Jo
I’m so proud you’re my daughter. -Marmee
Be good to each other. -Marmee
The Best Feminist Quotes in Little Women
We all love headstrong Jo, and she has some of the best feminist lines for Civil War times. But Amy also has one of the best series of lines ever about marriage during that time and may even ring true for some today. Though she may not be as much of a feminist as Jo, she certainly is blunt and realizes the ways of the world.
I can’t get over my disappointment in being a girl. -Jo
The world is hard on ambitious girls. -Amy
Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn’t make them unimportant. -Meg
Girls have to go into the world and make up their own minds about things. -Marmee
I intend to make my own way in this world. -Jo
You’ll be bored of him in 2 years. We’ll be interesting forever. -Jo
There are some natures too noble to curb and too lofty to bend. -Marmee
I’d be respected if I couldn’t be loved. -Amy
I can’t afford to starve on praise. -Jo
Why be ashamed of what you want? -Amy
No one will forget Jo March. -Jo
I’m just a woman. And as a woman, there’s no way for me to make my own money. Not enough to earn a living or to support my family, and if I had my own money, which I don’t, that money would belong to my husband the moment we got married. And if we had children, they would be his, not mine. They would be his property, so don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me. -Amy
I’d rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. -Jo
I think we have some power over who we love. -Amy
We can’t stop God’s will. -Beth
Well God hasn’t met my will yet. What Jo wills shall be done. -Jo
If I’m going to sell my heroine into marriage for money, I might as well get some of it. -Jo
I suppose marriage has always been an economic proposition. -Jo
It’s romance. -Mr. Dashwood
It’s mercenary. -Jo
I want to be great or nothing. – Amy
What are you favorite Little Women movie quotes that I missed? Drop them in the comments below!
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