Quotes by : Jill Lepore

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

Replacing “progress” with “innovation” skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement:....

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

The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set....

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force,....

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed....

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

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any....

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