Ann Jones

“History’s what people are trying to hide from you, not what they’re trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.  — HILARY MANTEL”
― Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

“Moms do not sleep. Moms hover in a state of semi-consciousness, waiting for someone to need something.”
― Lisa Mosconi, The XX Brain

“Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason. We all need to take a cold hard look at the evidence and see reasoning for what it is.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Gazing east, Adams elaborated. “Power is intoxicating,” he wrote, “and those who are possessed of it too often grow vain and insolent.”
― Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams