Laurel Thatcher Ulrich quotes:

So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.