As the National Women’s History Museum reported, Warren was born on Sept. 14, 1728, in Barnstable, MA. She was the third child of 13, and gained a love of politics from her father—who was an attorney elected to the Massachusetts legislature—and a love of history from sitting in on her brother’s school lessons (since girls weren’t allowed to receive a formal education at the time). She educated herself with books she had at her disposal, and ended up marrying James Warren in 1754, who was also politically active, which meshed well with her own ideology.
She kept a written history of the Revolutionary War for 30 years, which turned into her 1805 book History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. It was the first nonfiction book published by a woman in the United States and is one of the earliest first-hand recollections of the war, according to the National Women’s History Museum. Jefferson even ordered copies to be made for himself and his cabinet members (he was president at the time), writing to Warren that he anticipated her account “will furnish a more instructive lesson to mankind than any equal period known in history,” per Sudie Doggett Wike’s book Women in the American Revolution.
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Quote of the Day by Mercy Otis Warren
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This quote comes from the book, The plays and poems of Mercy Otis Warren: facsimile reproductions, which was printed in 1980. Most of the chapters are various plays she wrote—The defeat, The adulateur, The blockheads, The group and The motley assembly—which ranged in date from 1773 to 1779. There is also a chapter called “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous,” from 1790, per the New York Public Library.
Warren is saying that the “balm” or healing factor in life is to be surrounded by “kind and faithful” friendships. Even when your existence can get bogged down by trivial drama, tough financial times or just mundane periods when you feel like nothing is going your way, a great friend can make all of the difference in your mood. That companion can be your childhood bestie, someone who lives on your street, your sibling or your partner; whoever it is that can make your down days even a little brighter.
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More Quotes from Mercy Otis Warren
“It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.”“Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.”“The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.”“Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.”“The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.”“The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.”Related: Quote of the Day: Physicist Marie Curie on ‘The Way of Progress’—It Was ‘Neither Swift nor Easy’
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