Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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