Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Quotes

• Well-behaved women seldom make history.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Funny, Strength, Inspiring

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2015). “The Slogan”, Vintage

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

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Pioneers, Soap, Burden

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• 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.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Past, Voice, Listening

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.33, Vintage

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• A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Birth, Wells

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

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  History, History Making

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2015). “The Slogan”, p.24, Vintage

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• 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.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Girl, Mother, People

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.19, Vintage

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• 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.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Mind, Males, Invisible

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.36, Vintage

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