![]() “She believed that their lives were important and should be recorded.” ![]() “She was interested in the lives of women who were well-behaved,” says O’Toole. The historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich first wrote these words in an essay in 1976, but her point wasn’t so much to glorify those who break social convention. But that wasn’t where this quotation started. “The modern interpretation, I think, highlights the value of protest and civil-disobedience, i.e., making history,” says O’Toole in an email to Quartz. The Gandhi family told The Yale Book of Quotations editor that they believe the quote should be attributed to Gandhi-but no one has ever been able to provide evidence that he said it. Gandhi, and it seems to succinctly summarize his pacifist views. This piece of wisdom is commonly attributed to the Indian independence movement leader M.K. “An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind.” Apply at this office.” Many other true stories of the same theme were printed in ads-carriages would be for sale and eventually a pair of shoes.Ī Hemingway biographer claimed a newspaper syndicator, never named, recounted a story about Hemingway penning the short fiction as part of a bet between friends having lunch. In 1906, one Minnesota newspaper ad under the heading “Terse tales of the town” read: “For sale, baby carriage never been used. In his book he elaborates: “The text of the heartrending very short story evolved over a period of decades, primarily in newspapers.” “There were actual classified ads that were very similar,” O’Toole says.
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