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Abigail Adams Quotes about Husband

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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable 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...

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable 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... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

Abigail Adams
Sex, Husband, Giving Up
"Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams" edited by Charles Francis Adams, (p. 147), 1875.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams
Wedding, Husband, Women
Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

Abigail Adams
Husband, Lovers, Cold
Abigail Adams letter to John Adams, August 5, 1776.

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