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  • To paraphrase Abigail Adams, "don't forget the laddies".

    Catherine Crier: What About The White Guys? 2008

  • For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren entered the political arena as public figures.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • I'm just starting a new book, "Abigail Adams," "A Is for Abigail Adams: A Book of Amazing American Women," to go along with -- I see you have my other book here.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2002 2002

  • But her subject isn’t as well known as Abigail Adams — that, I’m sure, is why she chose her — so you are reading the first-ever reference to “First Lady of Letters” on nytimes.com.

    Stray Questions for: Woody Holton - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • But her subject isn’t as well known as Abigail Adams — that, I’m sure, is why she chose her — so you are reading the first-ever reference to “First Lady of Letters” on nytimes.com.

    Stray Questions for: Woody Holton - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Indeed, the woman featured in Woody Holton's lively biography, "Abigail Adams," often emerges as the dominant partner, just as confident in her own good judgment as John Adams notoriously was in his.

    NYT > Home Page By VIRGINIA DeJOHN ANDERSON 2010

  • No country cherishes its legends quite like the US, but the accounts of contemporaries such as Abigail Adams have no need of embellishment by the likes of Parson Weems.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • "Abigail Adams," Edith Gelles's "Portia: the World of Abigail Adams" and, most recently, Woody

    NYT > Home Page By MICHIKO KAKUTANI 2010

  • And Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, while he attended the Continental Congress, If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners, and not sink into inglorious ease . . .

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • His wife, Abigail Adams, was a member of the Quincys, a prestigious Massachusetts family.

    The Net Worth Of Every American President, From Washington To Obama: 24/7 Wall Street 2011

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