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

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

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

Why do beautiful women love ugly men? — Jill Lepore

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

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

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

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. — Jill Lepore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

every age has its folly — Jill Lepore

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. — Jill Lepore

History is only written from what remains. — Jill Lepore

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

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. — Jill Lepore

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

In antihistory, time is an illusion. — Jill Lepore

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. — Jill Lepore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A girl's apprenticeship was girlhood itself. A — Jill Lepore

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

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

'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. — Jill Lepore

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

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

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

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. — Jill Lepore

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

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. — Jill Lepore

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

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

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

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

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. — Jill Lepore

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

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. — Jill Lepore

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

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

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

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

Fiction is the history of the obscure. — Jill Lepore

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

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

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

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

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

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore

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 — Jill Lepore

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

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

No nation has a single history, no people a single song. — Jill Lepore

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

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

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

Disrupt, and you will be saved. — Jill Lepore

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