#bethmarchedit

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ELIZA SCANLEN as BETH MARCH LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

give them all of my dear love and a kiss. tell them i think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times. a year seems very long to wait before i see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted. i know they will remember all i said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when i come back to them i may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.

Beth had her troubles as well as the others; and not being angel, but a very human little girl, she often "wept a little weep," as Jo said, because she couldn't take music lessons and have a fine piano... There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully, that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiney presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

girls have to go into the world and make up their own minds about things

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.

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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.