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Abigail Adams has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously…
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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…
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,…
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her…
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for…
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her…
— Abigail Adams
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On her daughters: I have a 5 year old and I have a 1 year old.
— Sarah Rafferty
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Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be…
— Betty Smith
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But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
— Louisa May Alcott
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of…
— John Milton
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These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among…
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What kind of life am I setting up for her (her = daughters)...It's not just about making them, like, not be assholes,…
— Kimora Lee Simmons
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In an ICU waiting room a fan asked me to sign a pic of her daughters tumor that had just been removed.…
— Bryan Cranston
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