Little Women

[Meg has twisted her ankle and Laurie took her home in his carriage.] Amy: He put snow on your ankle? With his own hands?! Marmee: I won't have my girls being silly about boys. To bed! Amy: Everything lovely happens to Meg. Meg: [Sarcastically] Oh yes, indeed. Laurie: Hello! Jo! Come over here. You too, Meg. It's dull as tombs around here. Laurie: What do those girls do over there all day? John Brooke: Over the mysteries of female life there is drawn a veil, best left undisturbed. Amy March: We bare our souls and tell the most appalling secrets. Jo March: He's dull as powder, Meg. Can't you at least marry someone amusing? Beth: I feel stronger with you close by. Jo March: Well, of course Aunt March prefers Amy over me. Why shouldn't she? I'm ugly and awkward and I always say the wrong things. I fly around throwing away perfectly good marriage proposals. I love our home, but I'm just so dreadful and I can't stand being here! I'm sorry, I'm sorry Marmee. There's just something really wrong with me. I want to change, but I - I can't. And I just know I'll never fit in anywhere. Amy: We'll all grow up some day. We might as well know what we want. Jo: I rather crave violence. Jo: Don't be such a beetle! I could never love anyone as I love my sisters! Jo: If I weren't going to be a writer I'd go to New York and pursue the stage. Are you shocked? Laurie: Very. Jo: Now we are all family, as we always should have been. Marmee: I am going to write him a letter. Jo: A letter. That'll show him. Beth: I am not afraid. I can be brave like you. But I know I shall be homesick for you, even in Heaven. Jo: I go around turning down perfectly good marriage proposals! Jo: What's going to happen? Friedrich: The inevitable. Marmee: Feminine weaknesses and fainting spells are the direct result of our confining young girls to the house, bent over their needlework, and restrictive corsets. Doctor: There is nothing I can do. If I were to bleed her, it would finish her. We must send for the mother. Laurie: Forgive me. I have already done so. Jo: Will we never all be together again? Amy: I don't wanna die. I've never even been kissed. I've waited my whole to be kissed, and what if I miss it? Laurie: I tell you what. I promise to kiss you before you die. Friedrich: Jo. Such a little name for... such a person. Friedrich: But I have nothing to give you. My hands are empty. [entwines her hands with his] Jo: Not empty now. Laurie: I have loved you since the moment I clamped eyes on you. What could be more reasonable than to marry you? Jo March: We'd kill each other. Laurie: Nonsense! Jo March: Neither of us can keep our temper--- Laurie: I can, unless provoked. Jo March: We're both stupidly stubborn, especially you. We'd only quarrel! Laurie: I wouldn't! Jo March: You can't even propose without quarreling. Marmee March: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You're ready to go out and - and find a good use for your talent. Tho' I don't know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it. Beth: I'm so full of happiness, that if Father was only here, I couldn't hold one drop more. Amy: You don't need dozens of suitors. You need only one... if he's the right one. Laurie: I'm quite taken by that one. Jo: That's Meg! Laurie: Meg. Jo: That's my sister. She's completely bald in front. Friedrich Bhaer: You must write from the depths of your soul! John Brooke: Over the mysteries of female life there is drawn a veil best left undisturbed. Laurie: Someday you'll find a man, a good man, and you'll love him, and marry him, and live and die for him. And I'll be hanged if I stand by and watch. Amy: Do you love Laurie more than you love me? Jo: Don't be silly! I could never love anyone more than I love my sisters. Josephine 'Jo' March: I won't have a sister who is a lazy ignoramus. Josephine 'Jo' March: You plastered yourself on him! Meg March: It's proper to take a gentleman's arm if it's offered! Josephine 'Jo' March: If lack of attention to personal finances is a mark of refinement, then the Marches must be the most elegant family in Concord! Josephine 'Jo' March: If I were a boy I would want to look just like that. ~ Home ~ Movies ~ Songs ~ Anonymous ~ Women ~ ~ Friendship ~ Life and Success ~ Poems ~ Shakespeare ~ Star Trek ~