180 Quotes by Jill Lepore

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world. – William Moulton Marston, March 1945.

Wonder Woman left Paradise Island to fight fascism with feminism.

The omitting the Word will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed.

The only difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England, Franklin joked, is that the former is infallible while the latter is never in the wrong.

Reviewing a book written by someone you’re living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

Marston liked to say that Wonder Woman was meant to be “psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world,” but neither he nor Gaines seem to have given much thought to hiring a woman to draw her.

History isn’t only a subject; it’s also a method. My method is, generally, to let the dead speak for themselves. I’ve pressed their words between these pages, like flowers, for their beauty, or like insects, for their hideousness. The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.

The Electoral College was a concession to slave owners, an affair of both mathematical and political calculation.

Wonder Woman didn’t begin in 1941 when William Moulton Marston turned in his first script to Sheldon Mayer. Wonder Woman began on a winter day in 1904 when Margaret Sanger dug Olive Byrne out of a snowbank.