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Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

Louisa May Alcott
Growing Up, Trying, Grows
Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Little Women”, p.159, Race Point Publishing

When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

Louisa May Alcott
Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

Louisa May Alcott
Growing Up, Meg, Pretending

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

Louisa May Alcott
Dream, Growing Up, Thinking
J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.930, e-artnow

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

Louisa May Alcott
Growing Up, Meg, Want

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