Abigail Adams Quotes
Where he [her husband John Adams] is wounded, I bleed.
Congress had diminished Adams authority to deal with the French and sided with Benjamin Franklin and the French Foreign Minister. Mrs. Adams lobbied members of Congress. Years later First Lady Lady Bird Johnson would echo a similar sentiment. See {605230}.
Abigail Adams, 1744-1818, Writer and First Lady (John Adams), Letter to James Lovell, 1781
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She almost exactly quotes another First Lady {592549}. It is not certain whether or not she was familiar with the Abigail Adams quotation.
- Born: November 22, 1744
- Died: October 28, 1818
- Nationality: American
- Profession: First Lady
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States, and is now designated as the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women to be married to one U.S. president and the mother of another.
