little woman
Example Sentences
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“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
She loved breaking taboos, especially the idea of the little woman at home, cooking, without much more to their lives, she recalls.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2023
“I’m not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,” she said to the interviewer.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
“There was this little woman and she asked me to walk for her,” Imboden says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2018
Whatever this queer little woman might be, she was certainly harmless, and unexpectedly appealing.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
