Source, in full
Scholarly article about the funeral sermons of Christian women (1970s), cited in Amy Lavoie, "Ulrich explains that well-behaved women should make history", Harvard Gazette (20 September 2007); variant: 'rarely' for 'seldom', quoted as epigraph in Kay Mills, From Pocahontas to Power Suits (1995), introduction
Notes from Wikiquote
Sometimes misattributed to Marilyn Monroe.