Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people"—an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience." Ulrich has also been a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. Her most famous book, “A Midwife’s Tale,” was later the basis for a PBS documentary film.

American - Historian | Born: July 11, 1938

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A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

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.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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