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Abigail Adams

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November 11, 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, The United States

died

October 28, 1818

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female

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Abigail Adams (née Smith) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States and the mother of John Quincy Adams the sixth, and is seen as the first Second Lady of the United States and the second First Lady of the United States though the terms were not coined until after her death.

Adams is remembered today for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses. John Adams frequently sought the advice of his wife on many matters, and their letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics. The letters are invaluable eyewitness accounts of the Revolutionary War home front as well as excellent sources of political commentary.

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Average rating: 4.10 · 798 ratings · 123 reviews · 19 distinct works

	My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams by Abigail Adams, John Adams 4.00 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 1840 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784 by Abigail Adams, John Adams, L.H. Butterfield 4.09 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Abigail Adams: Her Letters by Abigail Adams, Anna Sofia Botkin (Editor), Victoria Botkin (Narrator) 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Letters of Mrs Adams, Wife Of John Adams Vol 2 by Abigail Adams, John Adams 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Quotable Abigail Adams by Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	Ready for Anything: The Ultimate No B.S. Survival Manual for Ordinary People 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams V2 (1840) by Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams Volume 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Adams Family in Auteuil, 1784-1785: As Told in the Letters of Abigail Adams by Abigail Adams, L. H. Butterfield (Foreword), Howard C. Rice Jr (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams, Volume 2 by Abigail Adams, John Adams, Charles Francis Charles Francis Adams 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: historical , inspiring , literacy , women

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“...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable 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. 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

tags: gender , gender-equality , gender-politics , law , men , politics , women , womens-rights

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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 daughters have been afraid of it since. ”
― Abigail Adams

tags: adam-and-eve , bible , christianity , feminism , genesis , knowledge , motherhood , old-testement , religion

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