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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007)

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Born: July 11, 1938 (age 86)
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