1. “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.”
2. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
3. “But like other well-behaved women they choose to obey God rather than men.”
4. “Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.”
5. “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.”
6. “A studious female discovers male disdain for women, and that discovery leads to a new mission.”
7. “Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care.”
8. “A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up burdens and walk toward the future.”
9. “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.”
10. “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.”
