1. The founding fathers, as a group, apparently deemed it self-evident that women, too, were inferior beings. Abigail Adams importuned her husband John to ?remember the ladies? in formulating the new laws, but in vain. As a matter of fact, it took the fifteenth (and latest) edition of Bartlett'sFamiliar Quotations (first published in 1855), before Mrs. Adams and her notable ideas even made it into the book (1980 edition).
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