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
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life ... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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.
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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.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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.