I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut 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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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