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 seldom make history.
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...
We have some of the meanest spirits among us on earth. The net has halled in good and bad,
But like other well-behaved women they chose to obey God rather than men.
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...
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.
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...
Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care.
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...
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.
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...