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Abigail Adams
American
First Lady
Born:
Nov 22
,
1744
Died:
Oct 28
,
1818
Dangerous
Few
Man
Power
Serve
Women
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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
Rebellion
Care
Will
Ourselves
Determined
Laws
Voice
Attention
Bound
Particular
Any
Representation
Ladies
Hold
Which
Paid
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
Remember
Men
Power
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Tyrants
Would
Would-Be
Husbands
Could
Put
Hands
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams
Women
Heroes
Philosophers
Statesmen
Learned
Mean
Should
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
Words
Few
Too
Correspond
Them
Many
Actions
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.
Abigail Adams
Intelligence
Topic
Entertain
Directly
Points
He
Simultaneously
Felt
Always
Reflected
Person
Same
Conflicting
View
Number
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams
Service
Ourselves
Out
Lay
Mankind
Should
Whom
Serve
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
Wisdom
Great
Fruit
Experience
Virtues
Penetration
Out
Retirement
Call
Leisure
Lessons
Necessities
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
Mother
Thought
Hers
Fine
Daughters
Since
Most
She
Well
Been
Afraid
Eve
Her
Thing
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
Man
Made
Calm
Situation
Action
Believe
Think
Too
Begin
Any
Bustle
Desirable
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