“ And that's the point! Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force strength power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as g… Jill Lepore
“ Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, pr… Jill Lepore
“ We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed. Jill Lepore
“ And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving… Jill Lepore
“ History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things… Jill Lepore
“ Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. Jill Lepore
“ A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it dema… Jill Lepore
“ The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics. Jill Lepore
“ The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. Jill Lepore
“ It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, e… Jill Lepore
“ In 1934, after Upton Sinclair was defeated in his campaign to become the next governor of California, he labeled the advertising concern that defeated him a lie factory. Marston took much the same vie… Jill Lepore
“ No woman can be gotten with child without some knowledg, consent and delight in the acting thereof. Charles J. Hoadly, ed., Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, From May, 1653, to the U… Jill Lepore
“ IT BEGAN WITH A GUN. On September 1, 1939, the German army invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. In the October 1939 issue of Detective Comics, Batman killed a va… Jill Lepore
“ All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists," as one feminist explained. 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
“ 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
“ Wonder Woman didn't begin in 1941 when William Moulton Marston turned in his first script to Sheldon Mayer. Wonder Woman began on a winter day in 1904 when Margaret Sanger dug Olive Byrne out of a sno… Jill Lepore
“ Replacing “progress” with “innovation” skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement: the world may not be getting better and better but our devices are getting newer and newer. Jill Lepore
“ Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong. Jill Lepore
“ Innovation and disruption are ideas that originated in the arena of business but which have since been applied to arenas whose values and goals are remote from the values and goals of business. People… Jill Lepore
