Jill Lepore People Quotations

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 has since proved that assumption wrong.

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.