Yvelyne Elisée

“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women. ”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“Remember the Ladies.”
― Abigail Adams, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

“When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}”
― Abigail Adams

“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
― Abigail Adams