“John Adams showed how truly thickheaded he could be when he wrote from Paris to his wife running his business and raising his children back in Braintree, Massachusetts. ‘I admire the ladies here,’ he oh so sensitively said, ‘Don’t be jealous. They are handsome and very well educated. Their accomplishments are exceedingly brilliant.’ Abigail had a ready reply: ‘I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of females in my own country…. You need not be told how much female education is neglected, nor how fashionable it has been to ridicule female learning.’ I suspect he needed not be told because she had told him again and again.”
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the death of john adams june 30 1778
(Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts)
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