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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well behaved women rarely make history.[/quote]

Just as a public service I have to tell the story of this quote and how it has been misused. It was attributed to historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. I heard her speak once and she said she is amused that people have turned it into a rallying cry and a bumper sticker, but it's completely not what she meant. She was looking to tell the stories of ordinary women of another era and had to dig very deep to find their stories, because the only historical records she tended to find of women were when they were accused of crimes or witchcraft or part of some small scandal. What she meant was, women generally only showed up in the historical written record ("make history") when they did something unusually disruptive. She actually really valued the ordinary women's stories and it was her whole purpose to dig deeper and uncover them.

When people here the quote now I guess they are thinking of people like Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhardt. Fine enough, but what the historian actually meant was, you're only going to show up in the police records if you get arrested for something.[/quote]

Sounds like you are well behaved.[/quote]

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