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.

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.

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.

Some history-making is intentional much of it is accidental.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history