Disavow Quotes by Jill Lepore

More Disavow Quotes

Popular Disavow quotes from across the collection:

• O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
• Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s… — David Livingstone
• History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to… — Jill Lepore
• The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right… — Diane Johnson
• Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown… — Roxane Gay
• And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the… — Terry Tempest Williams
• The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something… — Hilton Als
• One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are… — Michel de Montaigne
• In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow… — Michelle Sagara

See all Disavow Quotes »