"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
― Abigail Adams
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Women
― Abigail Adams
More From Abigail Adams
- "Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
- "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
- "I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."
More In Women
- "I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."― B. R. Ambedkar
- "Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all."― Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- "All my friends’ mothers were appalling women."― Doris Lessing