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Little Women (1994 film) Quotes

Little Women (1994 film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Little Women ended its run in 1970.

It features Denise Di Novi as producer, Thomas Newman in charge of musical score, and Geoffrey Simpson as head of cinematography.

Little Women (1994 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Little Women (1994 film) is 118 minutes long. Little Women (1994 film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Winona Ryder as Jo, Christian Bale as Laurie, Winona Ryder as Jo March, Claire Danes as Beth, John Neville as Amy, Susan Sarandon as Marmee, Eric Stoltz as John Brooke, Susan Sarandon as Marmee March, John Neville as Meg, Winona Ryder as Josephine 'Jo' March, Mary Wickes as Amy March, and Matthew Walker as Meg March.

Little Women (1994 film) Quotes

Winona Ryder as Jo

  • (Friedrich) "But I have nothing to give you. My hands are empty."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Not empty now."
  • (Younger Amy March) "What's that smell? Like burnt feathers."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Aaahh."
  • (John Neville) "You've ruined me."
  • (Winona Ryder) "You plastered yourself on him."
  • (Matthew Walker) "It's proper to take a gentleman's arm if it's offered."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Late at night my mind would come alive with voices and stories and friends as dear to me as any in the real world. I gave myself up to it, longing for transformation."
  • (Winona Ryder) "If I weren't going to be a writer I'd go to New York and pursue the stage. Are you shocked?"
  • (Christian Bale) "Very."
  • (Winona Ryder) "If only I could be like father and crave violence and go to war and stand up to the lions of injustice."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Friedrich, this is what I write. My apologies if it fails to live up to your high standards."
  • (Friedrich Bhaer) "Jo, there is more to you than this. If you have the courage to write it."
  • (Winona Ryder) "My book. Someone's publishing my book. Hannah. Hannah, someone's publishing my book."
  • (Hannah) "Heaven help us."
  • (Winona Ryder) "But it came without a letter, how did it arrive?"
  • (Hannah) "Foreign gentleman brought it. Odd name, Fox or Bear."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Bhaer. Did you ask him to wait?"
  • (Hannah) "I thought he was one of Miss Amy's European friends come with a wedding gift. I told him Miss March and Mr Laurie were living next door."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Oh Hannah. You didn't."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Marmee."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "She wouldn't let us send for you sooner. The doctor has been a number of times but it's beyond all of us and I think she's been waiting for you before she --"
  • (Winona Ryder) "I'm sorry. Meg always makes me take the gentleman's part at home. It's a shame you don't know the lady's part."
  • (Winona Ryder) "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 fitful 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."
  • (Winona Ryder) "I won't have a sister who is a lazy ignoramus."
  • (Winona Ryder) "I don't have an opera dress."
  • (Friedrich Bhaer) "Where we are sitting, we shall not be so -- formal."
  • (Winona Ryder) "If lack of attention to personal finances is a mark of refinement, then I say the Marches must be the most elegant family in Concord."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Imagine, giving up Italy to come live with that awful old man."
  • (John Neville) "Oh Jo, please don't say awful; it's slang."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Will we never all be together again?"
  • (Winona Ryder) "What's going to happen?"
  • (Friedrich) "The inevitable."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Doesn't he have a noble brow? If I were a boy I'd want to look just like that."
  • (Winona Ryder) "I go around throwing away perfectly good marriage proposals."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Surprise."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "John. You have a daughter."
  • (Hannah) "And a son."
  • (John Neville) "Oh, Marmee, I can't believe you did this four times."
  • (Eric Stoltz) "Yes, but never two at once, my darling."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Teddy, please don't ask me."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Teddy? Oh, this is magic."
  • (Christian Bale) "Jo, you are absolutely"
  • (Winona Ryder) "Covered in flour. Oh dear."
  • (Winona Ryder) "He's dull as powder, Meg. Can't you at least marry someone amusing?"
  • (Winona Ryder) "I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country."
  • (Mr. Mayer) "You should have been a lawyer, Miss March."
  • (Winona Ryder) "I should have been a great many things, Mr. Mayer."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Meg? John Brooke stole your glove."
  • (John Neville) "Which glove? Not my white one."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Laurie says he keeps it in his pocket. Hannah, don't you think he ought to give it back?"
  • (Hannah) "It isn't what I think that matters."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Now we are all family, as we always should have been."
  • (Friedrich Bhaer) "You do not take wine?"
  • (Winona Ryder) "Only medicinally."
  • (Friedrich Bhaer) "Pretend you've got a cold."
  • (Friedrich Bhaer) "You know, when first I saw you I thought "ah, she is a writer"."
  • (Winona Ryder) "What made you think so?"

Susan Sarandon as Marmee

  • (Susan Sarandon) "25? Can Aunt March spare this much?"
  • (Winona Ryder) "I couldn't bear to ask."
  • (Winona Ryder) "I sold my hair."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "I am going to write this man a letter."
  • (Winona Ryder) "A letter. That'll show him."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "Cricket. Marmee's here. Icy cold. Jo, fetch a bowl with water, vinegar and some rags. Meg, my kit. We must draw the fever down from her head."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "Wouldn't this have made a wonderful school?"
  • (Winona Ryder) "A school."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "Hmm. What a challenge that would be."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "It is a very great loss and you have every right to be put out. But don't let the sun go down on your anger. Forgive each other, begin again tomorrow."
  • (Winona Ryder) "I will never forgive her."
  • (Susan Sarandon) ""Aunt March is bedridden and would not survive a sea voyage. Amy must bide her time and return later"."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "Just as well."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "Feminine weaknesses and fainting spells are the direct result of our confining young girls to the house, bent over their needlework, and restrictive corsets."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "I fear you would have a long engagement, three or four years. John must secure a house before you can marry and do his service to the union."
  • (Winona Ryder) "John? Marry? You mean that poky old Mr Brooke? How did he weasel his way into this family?"
  • (Susan Sarandon) "Jo. Mr Brooke has been very kind to visit father in the hospital every day."
  • (Winona Ryder) "He's dull as powder Meg, can't you at least marry someone amusing?"
  • (John Neville) "I'm fond of John, he's kind and serious and I'm not afraid of being poor."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Marmee, you can't just let her go and marry him."
  • (John Neville) "I'd hardly just go and marry anyone."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "I would rather Meg marry for love and be a poor man's wife than marry for riches and lose her self-respect."
  • (John Neville) "So, you don't mind that John is poor."
  • (Susan Sarandon) "No, but I'd rather he have a house."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Why must we marry at all? Why can't things just stay as they are?"
  • (Susan Sarandon) "It's just a proposal, nothing can be decided on. Now girls? Don't spoil the day."

Claire Danes as Beth

  • (Claire Danes) "Are you thinking about father?"
  • (Winona Ryder) "My hair."
  • (Claire Danes) "I feel stronger with you close by."
  • (Claire Danes) "I'm so full of happiness, that if Father was only here, I couldn't hold one drop more."
  • (Claire Danes) "If God wants me with Him, there is none who will stop Him. I don't mind. I was never like the rest of you -- making plans about the great things I'd do. I never saw myself as anything much. Not a great writer like you."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Beth, I'm not a great writer."
  • (Claire Danes) "But you will be. Oh, Jo, I've missed you so. Why does everyone want to go away? I love being home. But I don't like being left behind. Now I am the one going ahead. I am not afraid. I can be brave like you."
  • (Claire Danes) "I know I shall be homesick for you even in Heaven."

John Neville as Amy

  • (John Neville) "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?"
  • (Christian Bale) "I tell you what. I promise to kiss you before you die."
  • (John Neville) "You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one -- if he's the right one."
  • (John Neville) "We bear our souls and tell the most appalling secrets."
  • (John Neville) "Have you heard from Jo? She has befriended a German professor."
  • (Christian Bale) "I envy her happiness. I envy his happiness. I envy John Brooke for marrying Meg. I hate Fred Vaughn. And if Beth had a lover I would despise him too. Just as you have always known that you would never marry a pauper, I have always known that I belong to the March family."
  • (John Neville) "I will not be loved for my family --"
  • (John Neville) "Have you heard from the professor?"
  • (Winona Ryder) "No. No, we did not part well."
  • (John Neville) "Well, John and I don't always agree but then we mend it."
  • (John Neville) "Jo, how could you, your one beauty."
  • (John Neville) "He put snow on your ankle? With his own hands?"
  • (Susan Sarandon) "I won't have my girls being silly about boys. To bed. Jo dear."
  • (John Neville) "Everything lovely happens to Meg."
  • (John Neville) "Oh yes, indeed."

Christian Bale as Laurie

  • (Christian Bale) "Hello. Jo. Come over here. You too, Meg. It's dull as tombs around here."
  • (Christian Bale) "Fellow artists, may I present myself as an actor, a musician, and a loyal and very humble servant of the club."
  • (Winona Ryder) "We'll be the judge of that."
  • (Christian Bale) "In token of my gratitude and as a means of promoting communication between adjoining nations, shouting from windows being forbidden, I shall provide a post office in our hedge, to further incourage the bearing of our souls and the telling of our most appalling secrets. I do pledge never to reveal what I recieve in confindence here."
  • (John Neville) "Well, then. Do take your place Rodrigo."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Sir Rodrigo."
  • (Christian Bale) "I have loved you since the moment I clapped eyes on you. What could be more reasonable than to marry you?"
  • (Winona Ryder) "We'd kill each other."
  • (Christian Bale) "Nonsense."
  • (Winona Ryder) "Neither of us can keep our temper- --"
  • (Christian Bale) "I can, unless provoked."
  • (Winona Ryder) "We're both stupidly stubborn, especially you. We'd only quarrel."
  • (Christian Bale) "I wouldn't."
  • (Winona Ryder) "You can't even propose without quarreling."
  • (Christian Bale) "I'm quite taken by that one."
  • (Winona Ryder) "That's Meg."
  • (Christian Bale) "Meg."
  • (Winona Ryder) "That's my sister. She's completely bald in front."
  • (Christian Bale) "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."

Eric Stoltz as John Brooke

  • (Eric Stoltz) "Over the mysteries of female life there is drawn a veil best left undisturbed."
  • (Eric Stoltz) "Mr. Laurence. One doesn't shout at ladies as if they were cattle. My apologies."

Mary Wickes as Amy March

  • (Mary Wickes) "Aunt March is going to France."
  • (Winona Ryder) "FRANCE? Oh. That's ideal. I'd put up with anything to go."
  • (Mary Wickes) "No, she has asked me to accompany her."

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