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Well-behaved women seldom make history.
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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 keeping diaries, writing letters, or embroidering initials on linen sheets. 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. People make history by ..
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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.
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We have some of the meanest spirits among us on earth. The net has halled in good and bad,
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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 that the purported revelation "set forth that those women who would not allow their husbands to have more wives than one should be under condemnation before God." Their statements were powerful because they were simple, straightforward, and ..
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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.
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But like other well-behaved women they chose to obey God rather than men.
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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 about things they support, like better treatment for breast cancer or the opportunity for young girls to play soccer as well as lead cheers. As Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon observe, "Although the word 'feminist' has become a pejorative ..
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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 whose contributions have been local and domestic. For centuries, women have sustained local communities, raising food, caring for the sick, and picking up the pieces after wars.
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Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care.
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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 intellectual elite.3 The Holyokes enjoyed the barbecues, dances, teas, and "turtles" of the Essex County gentry, yet each of the four major housekeeping roles is clearly apparent in Mary's diary, as this selection of entries from the 1760s sho..
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