31 Quotes by Jodi Kantor

It was a rousing defense, not just of journalism but of the rights of women to make allegations against powerful men. When the Times published the letter on its website, it went immediately viral.

I have to know the hill on which I’m willing to die,” she told the group. “The equality of the sexes is that hill for me.

There isn’t ever going to be an end,” she said. “The point is that people have to continue always speaking up. And not being afraid.

Harassers were often accepted, or even cheered, as mischievous bad boys.

If white men could have a playground, this would be it.

Had the reckoning gone too far, with innocent men tarnished with less-than-convincing proof, or not far enough, with a frustrating lack of systemic change?

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.

I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.