Quotes from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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.

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.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

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

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

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.

Most well-behaved women are too busy living their lives to think about recording what they do and too modest about their own achievements to think anybody else will care.

If well-behaved women seldom make history, it is not only because gender norms have constrained the range of female activity but because history hasn't been very good at capturing the lives of those whose contributions have been local and domestic. For centuries, women have sustained local communities, raising food, caring for the sick, and picking up the pieces after wars.

Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care.

But like other well-behaved women they chose to obey God rather than men.

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Les femmes bien élevées entrent rarement dans l'histoire

She] was a true light upon a hill. She was a person of humility, affability, compassion and on whose tongue was the law of kindness. Her ear was open to the complaints of the afflicted, and her hand was open for the supply of the needy. If others were so unhappy as to divide into parties and to burn with contention, yet she remained a common friend to all. She was...ready to minister to them to the utmost of her power.

We have some of the meanest spirits among us on earth. The net has halled in good and bad

In a signed affidavit, William Law affirmed that Hyrum Smith had read to him a revelation "so called" that authorized certain men to have more than one wife. Jane Law added her own statement, explaining that the purported revelation "set forth that those women who would not allow their husbands to have more wives than one should be under condemnation before God." Their statements were powerful because they were simple, straightforward, and true.

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

Well-behaved women rarely make history.