“I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province.”

— Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, 24 September 1774

About Abigail Adams

1744 – 1818

American First Lady and prolific letter writer, wife of John Adams.

“How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!”

“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”

“Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”

“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”