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Abigail Adams (1744 – 1818)


Wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and is seen as the second First Lady of the United States, though that term was not coined until after her passing.
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Abigail Adams
It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
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