Patriotism in the female Sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honours and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Goverment from having held a place of Eminence...Yet all History and every age exhibit Instances of patriotick virtue in the female Sex; which considering our situation equals the most Heroick of yours.

Abigail Adams

Letter to John Adams, June 17, 1782

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Patriotism Oppression of women

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Abigail Adams

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Letter to John Adams, June 17, 1782 Letters of Abigail Adams

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Letter

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English

Time

1782 1780s 18th century

Occupation

First Lady

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United States

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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. 17 June 1782.

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Adams, Abigail. Quoted in Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility, written by G. J. Barker-Benfield. University of Chicago Press, 2010, ch. 8.

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