Abigail Adams quotes
Abigail Adams was an influential American First Lady and adviser to her husband, President John Adams. Known for her extensive correspondence and advocacy for women's rights, her letters provide valuable insight into early American history. She is remembered as a progressive thinker and a pioneering voice for equality. Here are 46 of her quotes:
These are the 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. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
Abigail Adams
Patriotism in the female s*x 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. Even in the freest countries our property is subject to the control and disposal of our partners, to whom the laws have given a sovereign authority. Deprived of a voice in legislation, obliged to submit to those laws which are imposed upon us, is it not sufficient to make us indifferent to the public welfare? 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
Abigail Adams
Occupation: American First Lady
Born: November 22, 1744
Died: October 28, 1818
Quotes count: 46
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