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Abigail Adams

Great necessities call forth great leaders.

— Abigail Adams leaders

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to…. Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

— abigail adams education

In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable 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. 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.

— abigail adams art

Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence. . . . Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.

— abigail adams history

These are 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. . . . Great necessities call out great virtues.

— abigail adams life

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

— abigail adams art

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

— abigail adams love

Whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken—and notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet.

— abigail adams peace

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

— abigail adams education

Ive always felt that a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

— Abigail Adams intelligence

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

— Abigail Adams women

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

— Abigail Adams art

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, Give, give.

— Abigail Adams power

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.

— Abigail Adams life

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

— Abigail Adams learning

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

— Abigail Adams words

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

— Abigail Adams wisdom

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

— Abigail Adams war

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

— Abigail Adams power

Great necessities call out great virtues.

— Abigail Adams virtue

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

— Abigail Adams knowledge

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

— Abigail Adams power

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