# Little Women (2019 film)

Little Women is a 2019 film about the March sisters - Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth - who enter the threshold of womanhood and go through many ups and downs in life and endeavor to make important decisions that can affect their future.
    Directed and written by Greta Gerwig, based on the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott.

## Jo 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. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I'm so sick of it. [almost crying] But I'm so lonely...
* I can't get over my disappointment at being a girl.
* I suppose marriage has always been an economic proposition. Even in fiction.
* If I were a girl in a book, this would all be so easy.
* [whispering to Beth] Don't go quietly, fight! Please fight to the end, be LOUD! Don't just quietly go away!

## Meg March

* Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn't mean they're unimportant.

## Amy March

* I want to be great or nothing.

## Beth March

* [about Meg's hair] Why is her hair off?
* [to Amy, about her piano] I can teach you chords.

## Aunt March

* I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
* [to Amy] You are your family's hope now. Beth is sick, Jo is a lost cause, and I hear Meg has her head turned by a penniless tutor, so...it'll be up to you to support them all.

## Others

* Mr. Dashwood: Tell her to make it short and spicy. And if the main character is a girl, make sure she's married by the end. Or dead, either way.
* Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: This is Meg, Amy, Beth, and Jo.
* Friedrich Bhaer: For the writer in the attic. Because you enjoyed the play so much tonight, I wanted you to have this. It would help you study character and paint it with your pen. I would love to read what you're writing if you'll trust me. I promise honesty and whatever intelligent I can muster. Yours, Friedrich.

## Dialogue

    Amy March: I believe we have some power over who we love. It isn't something that just happens to a person.
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: I think the poets might disagree.
    Amy March: Well, I'm not a poet. 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 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.
    Jo March: I can't say "Yes" truly, so I won't say it at all. You'll see that I'm right, eventually, and you'll thank me for it.
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: I'd rather hang myself than realized this.
    Jo March: Teddy...
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: I'd rather be dead.
    Jo March: Teddy, don't say that. Teddy... [she follows him] Teddy, listen, you'll find some lovely accomplished girl who will adore you and she's gonna make a fine mistress for your fine house, but I wouldn't. I'm homely and awkward and odd and you'd be ashamed of me and we would quarrel because we can't help it even now! I'd hate elegant society and you'd hate my scribbling and we would be unhappy and wish we hadn't done it and everything will be horrid.
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: Anything more?
    Jo March: Nothing more -- except that... I don't believe I will ever marry. I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up.
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: You will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him. I know you will, it's your way, and you will and I'll watch. [walks away]
    Jo March: Perhaps... perhaps I was too quick in turning him down. Laurie.
    Marmee March: Do you love him?
    Jo March: If he asked me again, I think I would say yes. Do you think he'll ask me again?
    Marmee March: But do you love him?
    Jo March: I care more to be loved. I want to be loved.
    Marmee March: That is not the same as loving.
    Meg March: I can't believe today is my wedding day!
    Jo March: Me neither.
    Meg March: What's wrong?
    Jo March: Nothing.
    Meg March: Jo...
    Jo March: We can leave. We can leave right now.
    Meg March: What?
    Jo March: I can make money: I'll sell stories, I'll do anything - cook, clean, work in a factory. I can make a life for us.
    Meg March: But, Jo...
    Jo March: And you, you should be an actress and have a life on the stage. Let's run away together.
    Meg March: I want to get married.
    Jo March: Why?
    Meg March: I love him.
    Jo March: You will be bored of him in two years and we will be interesting forever.
    Meg March: Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn't mean they're unimportant. I want a home and a family and I'm willing to work and struggle, but I want to do it with John.
    Jo March: I just hate that you're leaving me. Don't leave.
    Meg March: Oh, Jo, I'm not leaving you. Besides, one day it will be your turn.
    Jo March: I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. I would. I can't believe childhood is over.
    Meg March: It was going to end one way or another. And what a happy end.
    Jo March: If she had died, it would've been my fault.
    Marmee March: She will be fine, the doctor said he didn't even think she'd catch cold.
    Jo March: What is wrong with me? I've made so many resolutions and written sad notes and cried over my sins, but it just doesn't seem to help. When I get in a passion, I get so savage I could hurt anyone and I'd enjoy it.
    Marmee March: You remind me of myself.
    Jo March: But you're never angry.
    Marmee March: I'm angry nearly every day of my life.
    Jo March: You are?
    Marmee March: I'm not patient by nature, but with nearly 40 years of effort I'm learning to not let it get the better of me.
    Jo March: I'll do the same, then.
    Marmee March: I hope you'll do a great deal better than me. There are some natures too noble to curb and too lofty to bend.
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: Don't marry him.
    Amy March: What?
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: Don't marry him.
    Amy March: Why?
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: You know why...
    Amy March: No, Laurie, that's mean, it's just mean of you...
    Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence: Why?
    Amy March: I have been second to Jo my whole life in everything and I will not be the person you settle for just because you cannot have her. I won't do it, not when, not when I've spent my entire life loving you.
    Beth March: I love to listen to you read, Jo, but I love it even better when you read the stories you've written.
    Jo March: I don't have any new stories.
    Beth March: Why not?
    Jo March: Haven't written any.
    Beth March: You have pencil and paper. Sit here and write me something.
    Jo March: Uhh. I can't, I don't think I can anymore.
    Beth March: Why?
    Jo March: It's just, no one even cares to hear my stories anyway.
    Beth March: Write something for me. You're a writer. Even before anyone knew or paid you. I'm very sick and you must do what I say. Do what Marmee taught us to do. Do it for someone else.
    Amy March: I'm sorry, Jo.
    Marmee March: Amy...
    Amy March: It's just that the only thing you care about is your writing so it's not as if I could hurt you by ruining one of your dresses. And I really did want to hurt you. I am the most sorry for it now. I'm so sorry.
    Marmee March: Jo, don't let the sun go down on your anger. Forgive her. Help each other, and you begin again tomorrow.
    Jo March: She doesn't deserve my forgiveness. I will hate her! I will hate her forever!

## External links

* Little Women (2019 film) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Little Women (2019 film) at Allmovie