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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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 am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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These are the 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.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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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.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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