On this Woman’s Day, or Take the Day Off for Women, or whatever they called it today, allowing women to take the day off from work and everything else. Darn, I missed what they named it. Anyway it seemed like a good day to see what John Adams said about his wife, Abigail, to his family.

John wrote this 4 years after the death of his beloved Abigail:

“This Lady (Abigail) was far more beautiful than Lady Russell [an admired Englishwomen of the time], had a brighter genius, more information, a more refined taste, and (was) at least her equal in virtues of the heart. [She also had] equal fortitude and firmness of character, equal resignation to the will of Heaven, . . . equal in all the virutes of the Christian life.”

But she never marched in a protest parade, or stayed home from work. She ran the whole household while John was away on Government business.

Here’s what she said about it:

“I wonder if future generation will ever know what we have suffered on their behalf.”

Yes, she was an irreplaceable cog in the wheel that gave us the new nation we call The United States of America! And she never complained. Are we acting like ungrateful children sometimes?