She told her husband, while he was drafting the laws of a new nation, to remember the ladies. He wrote back that he could not but laugh. The nation took one hundred and forty-four years to stop laughing.
She wrote the words that helped start a revolution. She wrote them without her name on them, because the era did not permit a woman to write politics under her own name, and she had things to say that could not wait for the era to change.