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It Takes a Woman
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Abigail Adams... "was at her home near the foot of
Penn Hill charged with the sole care of her little brood of children;
managing their farm; keeping house with frugality . . . opening her
doors to the houseless and giving with good will a part of her scant
portion to the poor; seeking work through her own hands and ever busily
occupied, now at the spinning-wheel . . . learning French . . . with the
aid of books alone. . . .
"She herself was still very weak after a
violent illness; her house was a hospital in every part . . . . Her
youngest son had been rescued from the grave by her nursing.
"Her mother
had been taken away and, after the austere manner of her forefathers,
buried without prayer.
"Winter was hurrying on; during the
days family affairs took all her attention, but her long evenings,
broken by the sound of the storm on the ocean, or the enemy's artillery
on Boston, were lonesome and melancholy.
"Ever in the silent night,
ruminating on the love and tenderness of her departed parent, she needed
the consolation of her husband's presence; but when she had read the
King's proclamation she willingly gave up her nearest friend . . . to
his perilous duties and sent him her cheering message . . .
"'I could not join to-day in the
petition of our worthy pastor for a reconciliation [with Great Britain].
Let us renounce them; and instead of supplications, as formerly, for
their prosperity, let us beseech the Almighty to blast their counsels
and bring naught to all their devices.'"
~Quoted by Rachel DeMille in "Steel to Gold: Feminism vs. Stateswomanship."
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