Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

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By Liz Bulkley on Friday, September 28, 2007.
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"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History". You've probably seen that quote written on bumper stickers or t-shirts a million times. Tonight on the Front Porch, we'll talk with the woman inadvertently coined it. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer-prize winning historian, and when she wrote that now-famous phrase in an essay 30 years ago, she didn't realize it would become so celebrated. Her new book examines the deeper significance behind the catchy slogan and the women that make it meaningful.

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