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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."

Source : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.19, Vintage

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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“One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outrÃ© artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.”
“It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.”
“I do think that if you are trying to think empirically about the relationship between conscious experience and the underlying physical reality, wine provides an excellent practical example. Winemakers manipulate the chemicals they are dealing with in a way that is very sensitive to the kinds of effects it will have on the subjective experience of tasters - this is not an accident.”
“The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.”
“I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.”
“When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.”

Source : "Eleven Declarations of War". Book by Len Deighton, 1971.
“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”
“To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self- therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.”

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