Best Jill Lepore Sayings
- Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements. Accurate
- 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… Adolescence
- Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. Almost Anything
- Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research… Assumed
- Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. Die
- The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science,… American
- Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology. Disease
- 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… Bad
- 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… Arrival
- The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that… Consequent