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I’ve recently discovered my new favorite quote… for the moment at least.

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

Apparently the quote by Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has been around for a couple of years, but it wasn’t until recently that it met my ears… or rather my eyes. I first saw it as a simple black and white bumper sticker while stuck behind a beat up old station wagon in downtown St. Louis. Those words embedded in me like a mantra, and it seems as if I’ve heard that saying a thousand times, though, in all actuality, I’ve not heard it once.

There is no cryptic call to go wild; on the contrary, there is a call for the strength to take risks and the courage to deviate from the norm to ultimately become a person of influence. Content people seldom make history.

Artists and designers continue to tear down walls and push the boundaries, creating new norms for the next history-makers to break. This blog is my tribute to them, as well as documentation of my own attempts to paint, design, think, and act outside the constraints of merely a “well-behaved woman.”