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
sex giving-up husband
I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could… that your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.
men ought knows
When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
sleep house revolution
The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
disappointment unhappiness arise
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
husband lovers cold
Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
love taken heart
The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
sex men age
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
world littles
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
broken-heart power broken-promises
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
character wish endurance
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
women losing-a-loved-one heart
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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.
wisdom power men
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
perseverance 4th-of-july may
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.