Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adamswas the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is now designated the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not in use at the time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth11 November 1744
CityWeymouth, MA
CountryUnited States of America
family wise children
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
family country children
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
son action remember
My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
women memorable equality
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
hate shoes complaining
I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
women losing-a-loved-one heart
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
dark men soul
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
eye heart devil
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
religion unitarian acknowledge
I acknowledge myself a unitarian
kings fall people
A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
sex accomplishment brilliant
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
government long people
The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
jesus father believe
I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
sex class intellectual
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.