"Well-behaved women seldom make 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."
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Source: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.33, Vintage
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