“No effort could convince her that women could engage in such activities without loosing their feminity. Games seemed especially unfit for women. ..She was often torn between her belief that Americans were above European style dissipation, and her fear it… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“she learned slowly and painfully that it was easier to overthrow a government than to create a one...” — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)” — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“She blamed moral vices that weakened the whole society and worried that Americans were heading in the same direction… Thought that so much land… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“If he has none to give him pain, he has none to give him pleasure. She never expressed doubts about the way she raised… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“Women were responsible for raising next generation of citizens, they themselves needed to be well educated in order to teach their children. She never believed as many men of her time, women were innately inferior to men, she conceded they had different traits and talents, which fitted them for a social role different from men's. ...Marriage and family were among… — Lynne Withey Copy Share
“Heart agitated with remains of former passion is most susceptible to a new one...How unpardonable would it have been in you to have been… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“The custom of confession seemed designed to encourage sin by granting ready forgiveness. Neither Abigail nor any member of her family ever wavered in their preference for life in America over life in Europe. In France they lived far grander style than they ever lived in Braintree. ...her unshakable belief was that America was superior to Europe - superiority based… — Lynne Withey Copy Share
“America will not wear chains while her daughters are virtuous, but corrupt their morals by a general depravity, believe me sir a state or… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“To deny James an education was attacking principles of liberty and equality upon the only ground which it ought to be supported and equality… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“For a woman, there is no such thing as retirement. She always enjoyed her role as wife, mother, and household manager.” — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“Liberty yes - but equality for all men? The end of all distinctions of social class? Such thinking smacked of anarchy, and of the… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“Services rendered to a country in a diplomatic line can be known only to a few – if they are important and they become… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
