quote of the day

[niyad]

Quote for Today

No man ever prospered in the world without the consent and cooperation of his wife.

— Abigail Adams 1809

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0302calendar.htm

[MarianJack]

1. I love me that good ole'...

...Abigail Adams!

Legend is that she used a wing of the White House for hanging her laundry!

If my wife and I had ever had a daughter, I'd have wanted to name her Abigail.

PEACE!

[VWolf]

2. Our first child is named Abigail

for two reasons:

Abigail Adams

Abigail means, loosely, "father's joy"

[MarianJack]

4. Very cool!

I'm sure that she is daddy's joy!

PEACE!

[niyad]

3. abigail was truly a remarkable woman--keeping the farm while john was away, raising the children.

and my favourite quote

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Abigail Adams

Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abigail_adams.html#ixzz1nzIP8WJv


LETTERS BETWEEN ABIGAIL ADAMS
AND HER HUSBAND JOHN ADAMS


MARCH 31, 1776
ABIGAIL ADAMS TO JOHN ADAMS

"I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.

"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.

"Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

"That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up -- the harsh tide of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.

"Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?

"Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the (servants) of your sex; regard us then as being placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness."

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/suffrage/abigail.htm
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[MarianJack]

5. Boy oh Boy!

Isn't it wonderful that we have republicans to tell us that women are too stupid to be involved in their own health decisions?

She was smarter than all of these rightist idiots combined!

PEACE!

[niyad]

6. we have been fighting this kind of stupidity for millenia, but I didn't think we would be fighting

our hardest ones in the 21st century.

it's like a whole colony of the truly insane, patriarchal, backward, woman-hating weirdos got dropped off by a space ship or something.

[MarianJack]

7. Seriously,...

...a group of 5 idiotic and possibly incontinent old fart clergy declare a war on rubbers and an entire political party just falls in behind them. Jeeezis!

I lived in PA for 8 of the 12 years that little ricky santorum was in the senate. I've detested that little shit since I saw him announce in 1993. I was never surprised at his pronouncements though. It's too bad that the Party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ike has become the party of teabaggers and rush limbugger.

PEACE!

[Gormy Cuss]

8. To use very current vernacular:

Oh, snap!


The Adams were the first power couple in the White House.

[niyad]

9. you definitely have that very correct