Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s. Jill Lepore More Quotes by Jill Lepore More Quotes From Jill Lepore 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. Jill Lepore senior age moving Why do beautiful women love ugly men? Jill Lepore ugly beautiful men In antihistory, time is an illusion. Jill Lepore illusion We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed. Jill Lepore personality hands thinking Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. Jill Lepore viruses epidemics patterns Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. Jill Lepore roads teachers police business Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. Jill Lepore us everyone know privacy In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off. Jill Lepore employees new college work Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror. Jill Lepore competitive strategy innovation age 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 who moral problem president Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation. Jill Lepore about innovation politics culture As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants. Jill Lepore colonies who three two The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War. Jill Lepore progress war history world Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house. Jill Lepore library mother house long Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology. Jill Lepore you vote fashion political Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Jill Lepore more because prosperity society I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote. Jill Lepore everything library radio remember 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 go summer father school 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. Jill Lepore generation bad good forget Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. Jill Lepore corruption god time history
