The literary pioneers of this women's movement included: Abigail Adams who had a genius for letter writing, Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "woman of the American revolution", with works that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the first feminist spikes in her essay Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. ... For this reason, most outside experiences were learned through the eyes of a woman's mother, hence Woolf's quote "For we think back through our mothers ...

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