ipl-logo

Why Do Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

363 Words2 Pages
Reading Response to The Slogan: “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Is an article about the fame to a single line from a scholarly article that she published in 1976, In the opening paragraph of the article was the now famous quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history”? When I first read this quote, I felt it meant; if women want to make history they need to make a huge impression on people. It almost means to me that if you do not speak up, you will never be heard. Remember closed mouths don’t get feed. You need to stand up if you want to be noticed. My second thought on this quote was, why do well behaved women have to a woman to be misbehaved to be noticed. Why do women feel like they must make
Open Document