Status Updates From A Founding Mother: A Novel ...

"And so for what happened next, I, too, shall draw a veil." Thank you! This author duo is doing a marvelous job of keeping the bedroom door closed on Abigail and John's married love life.

Self-abnegation! What a word!

"Yet all history and every age exhibited instances of patriotic virtue in women. Therefore, I'd praise myself for having sacrificed so large a portion of my peace and happiness to promote the welfare of my country, even if that country would never thank the hand that rocked its cradle."

Parsimonious. What an intriguing word!

With a shake of his head my husband pulled me against his warm chest. "Your dream will never come to pass. You can never be coolly received by me. Not while my heart beats and my sense remains."

"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, in this new nation, we should have learned women... don't forget my tea, for your own sake as well as mine."

I collected my pewter spoons and began melting them to make musket balls for the fight.

"I could feel no pity for those tea leaves floating in the harbor -- though I daresay I was thirsty enough for tea that I was tempted to taste it. Even steeped in harbor water, it had to be better than coffee."

"I made a silent promise to my baby girl: I'd defend her with frying pan, broomstick or musket if need be. Even if the price was anarchy."

"Never fear, I said entering the general store. "My good man trusts me to do as I think best." Which was the reason I married him."

"Fathers might wield the ploughs that till the fields of our future, but mothers provide the water, pull the weeds, and nurture the buds... without mothers, not one sprout would grow-- whether the fruit be a child or a nation." Already loving this book! Hopefully it treats Abigail Adams (one of my heroines) with grace!