Abigail Smith Adams
(1744-1818)

2nd 1st Lady of the United States
National Women's Hall of Fame

birthdate: November 11
birthplace:
Weymouth, Massachusetts

QUOTES

EDUCATION
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

LEADERSHIP
Great necessities call forth great leaders.

PERSEVERANCE
"Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance."

WOMEN
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.

“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”

MORE QUOTES
Great necessities call out great virtues.

 

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