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Massachusetts's poor laws required that boys be taught to write and girls to read.7

In 1911, an "Amazon" meant any woman rebel - which, to a lot of people, meant any girl who left home and went to college.

The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.

Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.19

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

every age has its folly

When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

History is only written from what remains.

In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

He took the trouble to offer "a few gentle Reproofs on those who deserve them," including Harvard students.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

Draw a woman who's as powerful as Superman, as sexy as Miss Fury, as scantily clad as Sheena the jungle queen, and as patriotic as Captain America.

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

He eyed his class of Harvard men sternly. "Girls are also human beings," he told them, "a point often overlooked!!"17

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

A girl's apprenticeship was girlhood itself. A

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

One Half of the World does not know how the other Half lives, Franklin once wrote. His sister is his other Half.

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.

The virtue she valued most was faith. It had no place on Franklin's list. She placed her trust in Providence. He placed his faith in man.

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

The Mercy of some of these Men is Cruelty itself," he wrote. "It were better for us and the Indians also, that we had no Liberty.

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.18

When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.

Early Menstruation renders the Uteri Hard & dry; so that they ought not to prompt the early appearance by obscene books, and frequent touchings.

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

But everyone tries; trying is the human condition. All anyone can do is ask.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

She was curious, and she could be untoward. But she was dutiful. She was pared to fit.

Fiction is the history of the obscure.

Either hide this well or destroy it. It was the family motto.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Girls are important: Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.

That people so often believe themselves to be right is no proof that they are.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

In Middle English, a frankeleyn is a free man, an owner of land but not of title: neither a serf nor a peasant but not a nobleman, either. There

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.

Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. "Feminism is not a prejudice," she said, "It is a principle.

By the Collision of different Sentiments," Franklin wrote, "Sparks of Truth are struck out, and political Light is obtained.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, as one feminist explained.