This action led to a 361 day long boycott. Rosa Parks performed the unexpected by refusing to give up her seat on the bus. The article sates “to make history, people need to do the unexpected”(Norton 660). It explains how Mae West, became known by being “bold” in her theater career. It also states that, “only those who…step into the stream of public consequence have a history” (Norton 658). The article explains how it is stereotypical of the women’s role to nurture, and act mainly as caregivers. Ulrich points out how the “Well-Behaved Women” quote changed many perspectives, including hers. The quote has not only been featured in famous women magazines, but it’s also on coffee mugs, tote bags, and websites. In 1996, Jill Portugal “asked permission to print it on T-shirts”(Norton 657).Ulrich kindly happily accepted. She was not expecting the fame and activism that was to further come from this one phrase. Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich describes the success of her quote from an article she published in 1976. Professor Ulrich's work is featured on the web at and. Her major fields of interest are early American social history, women's history, and material culture. Her most recent book is Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007). In The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Making of an American Myth (2001), she has incorporated museum-based research as well as more traditional archival work. She is the author of Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Early New England, 1650-1750 (1982) and A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990) which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 and became the basis of a PBS documentary. Professor Ulrich's work is Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University.
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