The Complete Little Women

"My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer." - J. K. Rowling

"I read Little Women a thousand times. Ten thousand. I am no longer incognito, not even myself. I am Jo in her ''vortex''-Cynthia Ozick

"Jo has given generations of readers like ... me permission to try to become who we wished. She has helped us to recognize - and to live with, knowing we''re not alone - the conflict between the writer''s need for solitude and self-absorption and the yearning for the warmth of love." - Gail Mazur

Simone de Beauvoir saw in Jo March "a glimpse of my future self ... I identified myself passionately with Jo, the intellectual. Brusque and bony, Jo clambered up into trees when she wanted to read; she was much more tomboyish and daring than I was, but I shared her horror of sewing and housekeeping and her love of books."

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