In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little w...
JILL LEPORE My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a ...
JILL LEPORE Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
JILL LEPORE Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more...
JILL LEPORE As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned...
JILL LEPORE As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they p...
JILL LEPORE The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated ...
JILL LEPORE We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers le...
JILL LEPORE Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, elec...
JILL LEPORE Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a...
JILL LEPORE Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled ...
JILL LEPORE Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, t...
JILL LEPORE Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about ...
JILL LEPORE Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
JILL LEPORE Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and pr...
JILL LEPORE Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes ...
JILL LEPORE Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence...
JILL LEPORE In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.
JILL LEPORE The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956...
JILL LEPORE Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
JILL LEPORE In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless p...
JILL LEPORE Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The ...
JILL LEPORE Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The ...
JILL LEPORE History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what t...
JILL LEPORE Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many bo...
JILL LEPORE One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face ...
JILL LEPORE As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an...
JILL LEPORE Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the servi...
JILL LEPORE Why do beautiful women love ugly men?
JILL LEPORE Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
JILL LEPORE Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns...
JILL LEPORE Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die...
JILL LEPORE In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called fin...
JILL LEPORE Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special provi...
JILL LEPORE Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most ...
JILL LEPORE I would rather be alone and happy than be with someone who makes me miserable!
JILL The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.
NANETTE LEPORE I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.
NANETTE LEPORE I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I...
NANETTE LEPORE It's just fun to be in Paris.
NANETTE LEPORE I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
NANETTE LEPORE It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is j...
NANETTE LEPORE It's very hard to move on. We did everything together, and things aren't the same without him.
A.J. LEPORE [One concern is that Rita will hit] the general area where all these folks from New Orleans have bee...
FRANK LEPORE It's got similar characteristics, except it's just a little lower in latitude. The issue is what hap...
FRANK LEPORE If we get up into that league, we'll have issues larger than naming these storms. The new phrase wil...
FRANK LEPORE The August update to Atlantic hurricane season outlook called for 18 to 21, so I would hope it doesn...
FRANK LEPORE This current episode started in 1995, when we had 11 hurricanes. Normal is six. This year we expect ...
FRANK LEPORE I had a woman call me this morning in tears because her daughter was named Katrina, ... and she was ...
FRANK LEPORE But I think we've had enough excitement for one year.
FRANK LEPORE They've been right eight years out of eight. I don't know if I'd take a bet on things going over. Bu...
FRANK LEPORE It's very hard to move on.
A.J. LEPORE Everything is getting neater, more buttoned-up and less bohemian.
NANETTE LEPORE We go to the Greek alphabet.
FRANK LEPORE I would offer them my friendship.
A.J. LEPORE Surface, or ground level, is where the people are and so that wind speed is what you want to know.
FRANK LEPORE The onshore flow of the winds tends to cause a lot of beach erosion, and because the storm is so sta...
FRANK LEPORE I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - ...
JILL SOLOWAY I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as...
JILL SCOTT You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' ...
JILL ABRAMSON For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously o...
JILL SCOTT By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take aw...
JILL MCCORKLE Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective ...
JILL ABRAMSON For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more ...
JILL MCCORKLE I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love ...
JILL GREENBERG There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden C...
JILL SCOTT I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Co...
JILL SCOTT I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandm...
JILL SCOTT Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow&#...
JILL SCOTT There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fea...
JILL CLAYBURGH I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm...
JILL SCOTT We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand ca...
JILL TARTER Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' -...
JILL SOLOWAY The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evoluti...
JILL GREENBERG Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
JILL BENNETT It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
JILL PETERSON It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far...
JILL TWEEDIE The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids
JILL BENSLEY The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect moth...
JILL CHURCHILL Elizabeth Warren has very good proposals regarding Wall Street, but she really has not been leading ...
JILL STEIN I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been fe...
JILL SOLOWAY And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in E...
JILL DANDO Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and...
JILL SCOTT For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.
JILL SCOTT I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' all...
JILL SCOTT We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we ...
JILL STEIN Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only h...
JILL TARTER I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or de...
JILL HENNESSY Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
JILL TARTER To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
JILL SCOTT I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has ...
JILL SCOTT I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take som...
JILL SCOTT I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way ...
JILL MCCORKLE My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person i...
JILL MCCORKLE To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our fo...
JILL STEIN Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and s...
JILL SCOTT I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distri...
JILL SOLOWAY I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thin...
JILL SCOTT I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.
JILL SCOTT At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five c...
JILL WAGNER Our top plank really is a Green New Deal to transform our economy to a green economy, 100 percent wi...
JILL STEIN All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would w...
JILL SCOTT The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
JILL ROBINSON We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis fo...
JILL TARTER Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children ...
JILL GREENBERG I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the sco...
JILL STEIN I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a ...
JILL SCOTT I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love,...
JILL SCOTT I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary i...
JILL SCOTT I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Pri...
JILL SCOTT The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, h...
JILL SCOTT I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my car...
JILL WAGNER You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can thin...
JILL ABRAMSON Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in ...
JILL TARTER On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some...
JILL SOLOWAY Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also lik...
JILL SOLOWAY I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It...
JILL SCOTT Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.
JILL SHALVIS My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spe...
JILL SOLOWAY I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories...
JILL KARGMAN Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, ...
JILL SCOTT I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are,...
JILL WAGNER The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction...
JILL GREENBERG When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu rea...
JILL SCOTT With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the p...
JILL ABRAMSON I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that k...
JILL SCOTT I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and...
JILL SCOTT One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all ...
JILL SCOTT Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hil...
JILL STEIN It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.
JILL SOLOWAY My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.
JILL SCOTT My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing ...
JILL SCOTT 'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being differ...
JILL SCOTT I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.
JILL SOBULE I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult ...
JILL SCOTT I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad trac...
JILL SCOTT I'd say putting another Clinton in the White House is only going to make that right-wing extremi...
JILL STEIN We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a par...
JILL STEIN The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can l...
JILL SCOTT I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have re...
JILL ABRAMSON There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one
JILL CHURCHILL We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who...
JILL STEIN Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimb...
JILL DANDO Our behavior and attitude, good, bad or indifferent, is leaking into the earth's environmental energ...
JILL KNEER When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,you can give up, give in, or you c...
JILL ANZINGER Few are those whom this courage find. They keep their eyes upon the goal, and through this journey a...
JILL ANZINGER I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is...
JILL SOLOWAY Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work w...
JILL SCOTT The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to...
JILL TARTER I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
JILL SCOTT I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to toda...
JILL SCOTT When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this fun...
JILL SOLOWAY I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many ot...
JILL SCOTT My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much ...
JILL SCOTT The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went ...
JILL STEIN To inspire love within each other, we realize the fulfillment of our own hearts longing.
JILL ANZINGER In the space between a breath and a heartbeat I can feel it, pulling,yearning. Limbs and hearts pass...
JILL ANZINGER Flying high, the memory of you takes me down, but for you I don't mind falling.Your love raised me t...
JILL ANZINGER As a stone tumbled in coarse reality, constantly worn as it is refined, adversity, it's true beauty ...
JILL ANZINGER I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.
JILL SCOTT I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are real...
JILL STEIN Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring ...
JILL SOLOWAY The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, i...
JILL SOLOWAY I do eventually want to get married, but whether I end up marrying a guy or a girl, I'll still be in...
JILL RANEY For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and La...
JILL SOLOWAY We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken. True strength is found in picking up the...
JILL ANZINGER Even when we grow up we call still whisper our wishes upon the wind,as a child does in innocence, br...
JILL ANZINGER If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's alway...
JILL SOLOWAY I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a ...
JILL SOLOWAY Reaching skyward; no longer leaning, we grow well and strong, our friendship reinforced, in the know...
JILL ANZINGER Democracy is not what we don't want. Democracy is what we do want. It is a set of affirmative va...
JILL STEIN Bear bile can easily and cheaply be replaced by herbs and by synthetics.
JILL ROBINSON My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruci...
JILL TWEEDIE Men, I feel are like wine - before buying, a real connoisseur takes a small sip, and spits them out
JILL TWEEDIE It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far...
JILL TWEEDIE 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' as said by John Lennon.
JILL MELTON I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because th...
JILL SCOTT I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of...
JILL SOBULE I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by h...
JILL SCOTT I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on t...
JILL ABRAMSON Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
JILL SCOTT Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create ...
JILL SOLOWAY This is a convicted felon. This goes to a larger issue: Bob Menendez has based his entire political ...
JILL HAZELBAKER We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in al...
JILL STEIN Peace is an offshoot of love....it too can grow.
JILL KNEER We took some of those individuals and conducted some special training on range-of-motion and other e...
JILL JANSSEN It's a new gown based on one of Jackie Kennedy's favorite gowns. It was one of the only ones she eve...
JILL HENNESSY If you massage a baby when asleep or physically ill with a fever, the benefits are not the same. As ...
JILL VYSE I can't believe you didn't tell me you have a phone."

"It is a penis move," said Ethan ag...
JILL MYLES In war, there is hardly a more horrifying example of the head-long plunge into reckless militarism t...
JILL STEIN I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, sa...
JILL SOLOWAY I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your...
JILL CLAYBURGH To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and,...
JILL SOLOWAY For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a mani...
JILL SOLOWAY Without the kindness of strangers, where would we be?
JILL JOHNSON I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.
JILL SCOTT All of life seems like that. Once we settle into some phase or other, and become attached to it, som...
JILL JOHNSTON Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's nev...
JILL SCOTT Terry liked him a lot. I don't know how they connected. He lived close to where we were in the Dalla...
JILL STAUTNER