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It’s no accident that #Metoo started in the entertainment and television-news businesses, where women are required to look as much like Barbie and Bratz dolls as possible, with the help of personal trainers, makeup artists, hair stylists, personal shoppers, and surgeons.

— Jill Lepore

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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence.

Story of America: essays on origins (2014)

Before Barbie, dolls were babies, to be fed and burped and bathed and wheeled around in prams and put down for naps.

Who needs consciousness-raising and equal pay, when you’re an Amazon with an invisible plane?

I never set out to study history. I only ever set out to write.

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.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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