Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adamswas the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is now designated the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not in use at the time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth11 November 1744
CityWeymouth, MA
CountryUnited States of America
family country sweet
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-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
government rights people
The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
men hands historical
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
sex giving-up husband
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.
men ought knows
When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
sleep house revolution
The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
disappointment unhappiness arise
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
husband lovers cold
Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
love taken heart
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.
sex men age
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
world littles
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
broken-heart power broken-promises
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
character wish endurance
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.
women losing-a-loved-one heart
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.