Why does it follow that women are fitted for nothing but the cares of domestic life: for bearing children, and cooking the food of a family; devoting all their time to the domestic circle,--to promoting the immediate personal comfort of their husbands, brothers, and sons?
Quincy challenges the traditional view that women's roles should be limited to domestic duties, advocating for their involvement in public life.
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If its operation should turn out more advantageous to them, it will be more honorable for us; and I never can object to entering formally into an obligation to do that which, upon every virtuous principle, ought to be done without it.
The tongue of falsehood can never be silenced.
Adams replied: "I well know this; but labor I shall not refuse so long as my hands, my eyes, and my brain, do not desert me.
With a tolerable share of common sense, I hope, in America, to be independent and free.
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