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
Abigail Adams quotes about
attained attended learning sought
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
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.
sex men age
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
disappointment unhappiness arise
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
father blessing simplicity
If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
numbers views intelligence
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.
communication language-words diversity
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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.
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.
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.
genius want
These are the times when a genius wants to live.