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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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“I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.”

Abigail Adams

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Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
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1776
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Meaning of “I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and…”

Adams presses the revolutionary generation to consider women when creating new laws instead of reproducing inherited legal arrangements that concentrated authority in men.

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Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776. The request appears in a private letter discussing independence, law and women’s lack of political voice; the original spelling and capitalization are substantially preserved.

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