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Quotation by Abigail Adams
If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it? With regard to the education of my own children, I find myself soon out of my depth, destitute and deficient in every part of education. I most sincerely wish ... that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging learning and virtue. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams (1744–1818), U.S. matriarch; wife and mother of United States President. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution, letter dated August 14, 1776 (1875).
In a letter to her husband John Adams, who was away at war. She was reacting to his letter of August 3, in which he lamented his "countrymen's" lack of "art and address" and "knowledge of the world."
In a letter to her husband John Adams, who was away at war. She was reacting to his letter of August 3, in which he lamented his "countrymen's" lack of "art and address" and "knowledge of the world."
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