Jill Lepore Quotes
Top 67 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jill Lepore on Wise Famous Quotes.
In 1911, an "Amazon" meant any woman rebel - which, to a lot of people, meant any girl who left home and went to college.
'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.
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.
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
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.
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.
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
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.