Top 77 Quotes by Jill Lepore

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

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

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

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

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

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

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