“ 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
“ We have some of the meanest spirits among us on earth. The net has halled in good and bad, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“ Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental. People make history when they scale a mountain, ignite a bomb, or refuse to move to the back of the bus. But they also make history by kee… Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“ Mary Vial Holyoke was the daughter of a Boston merchant and the wife of a Salem gentleman, Edward Augustus Holyoke, a casual versifier and serious physician who was a member of the town’s economic and… Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“ 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… Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“ Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“ Some people are happy to give feminists credit for things they fear—like abortion rights, contraception for teenagers, or gay liberation—but less willing to acknowledge that feminist activism brought… Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“ 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. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“ 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. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“ 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 w… Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
