Les femmes bien élevées entrent rarement dans l'histoire - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves.

Well behaved women seldom make history.

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