Are you a woman who doesn't like to follow the rules or do what she's told? If so, you may just end up making history and being remembered. One very popular quote that is often misattributed is on the Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History Patch. It's one of the Ladies Patches on The Cheap Place, and the quote is very true. Well behaved women do rarely make history, you've got to make waves and change things if you want to be remembered!
The quote has been famously misattributed to people like Margaret Thatcher, Eleanor Roosevelt, and even Marilyn Monroe. However, it can actually be traced to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a writer, historian, and professor at Harvard University. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for her book A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785-1812. Later, while writing about Puritan funeral services, she would write her famous quote about well behaved women. Her original line was 'well behaved women seldom make history', and while the wording is sometimes a bit different, the meaning is always the same. After the quote became incredibly famous, Ulrich decided to use it as a title for a book on how women shaped and changed history.
If you love this quote, you'll love the patch that goes with it. It measures 4 by 1.25. The letters are done in bright yellow outlined in red, and they are very easy to read on the black background. If you're a woman who doesn't believe in behaving, and if you want to make history, you need this patch on your jacket or vest!
