Jana Bouck Remy

Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe.

The Kind of Woman Future Historians Will Study | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 2

What happens when a quotation becomes a pop culture slogan—appearing on bumper stickers and coffee mugs and even thong panties? “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” wrote Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in a 1976 academic essay about…