--- title: "6 Ever Quotes By Jill Lepore" description: "6 Ever quotes by Jill Lepore. Plus more from Jill Lepore and more Ever sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f0/jill-lepore-4886_bbc_i-was-obsessed-with-george-orwell-for-ye_781799.jpg" --- > [I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/i-was-obsessed-with-george-orwell-for-years-i-remember-going-to-the/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f0/jill-lepore-4886_bbc_i-was-obsessed-with-george-orwell-for-ye_781799.jpg) > [One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/one-thing-that-always-frustrated-me-was-that-while-benjamin-franklin/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/jill-lepore-4886_always_one-thing-that-always-frustrated-me-was_1161662.png) > [The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/the-karen-ann-quinlan-case-is-where-the-right-to-life-and-the-right/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/783/jill-lepore-4886_bound_the-karen-ann-quinlan-case-is-where-the_1514223.png) > [My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/my-mother-liked-to-command-me-to-do-things-i-found-scary-i-always/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/jill-lepore-4886_always_my-mother-liked-to-command-me-to-do-thin_2023839.png) > [We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/we-have-discharged-one-generation-of-debtors-after-another-but-we-do/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/jill-lepore-4886_after_we-have-discharged-one-generation-of-deb_2442353.jpg) > ['Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/doctor-who-is-the-most-original-science-fiction-television-series/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81b/jill-lepore-4886_also_doctor-who-is-the-most-original-science_2453208.png) ## Other authors on Ever ## More by Jill Lepore > [Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/weirdly-there-have-been-a-lot-of-critics-of-conservatism-but-very-few/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [History is only written from what remains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/history-is-only-written-from-what-remains/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/the-study-of-history-requires-investigation-imagination-empathy-and/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/well-reported-news-is-a-public-good-bad-news-is-bad-for-everyone/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/the-very-first-television-ad-targeted-to-women-was-produced-by-the/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/republicans-were-more-pro-choice-than-democrats-up-until-the-late/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/it-feels-silly-to-watch-endless-hours-of-winter-sports-every-four/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/historians-once-assumed-that-when-childhood-mortality-was-high-people/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/when-carrying-a-concealed-weapon-for-self-defense-is-understood-not/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > ['Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/doctor-who-is-unavoidably-a-product-of-mid-twentieth-century-debates/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/still-it-strikes-me-that-taken-together-they-do-make-an-argument-and/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/one-day-i-was-playing-the-game-of-life-the-board-game-with-a-mess-of/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/mainly-the-more-faddish-and-newer-stages-of-life-are-really-just/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [“Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the past and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/politics-is-a-story-about-the-relationship-between-the-past-and-the/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) > [Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-lepore/not-long-before-my-mother-died-i-found-a-long-lost-portrait-of-jane/) [Jill Lepore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-lepore/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ever/jill-lepore/#itemlist", "name": "6 Ever Quotes By Jill Lepore", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. 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