She was also spunky and unconventional, as her 1835 correspondence with Thomas J. Nance reveals: “You are well aware Thomas, that in writing you this letter, I am transgressing the circumscribed limits, laid down by tyrannical custom, for our sex.” Social disapproval did not intimidate her: “if I am condemned by the cold, unfeeling and fastidious of either Sex, I care not, for I trust, my Heart, has learned to rise superior to those groveling feelings, dictated by bosoms, that are callous to every refined emotion.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃