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View Plans“ ”I desire you would 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. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could… that your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but 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.
About Abigail Adams
Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and is retrospectively perceived as the second First Lady of the United States; the term was not coined until after she had died. She was also the mother of John Quincy Adams.
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Additional quotes by Abigail Adams
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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.
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.