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Abigail Adams

b: Weymouth, Massachusetts., Nov 11, 1744

d: Quincy, Massachusetts., Oct 28, 1818

American. First Lady. Only woman to be wife of one president, John Adams, mother of another, John Quincy Adams.

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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

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.

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.

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.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.

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.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.