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
(1744 - 1818)
Source: letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776.—Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, vol. 1, p. 370 (1963)
