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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

June 6, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

We’ve all seen a t-shirt, bumper sticker, mug or mouse pad with seem variation of the motto “Well-behaved women seldom make history”. I actually own a t-shirt, my mother had a bumper sticker on her Jeep Cherokee, and I think somewhere in a box shoved in one of my closets I might have a tote bag. What I didn’t know was that “well-behaved women seldom make history” was originally from a paper about Puritan women’s funeral sermons, or that it was coined by a Mormon […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: feminism through the ages, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:69 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: feminism through the ages, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ·
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