The theater has been called the pulse of the people. - Abigail Adams

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.