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.
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.