Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes & Sayings

I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute. — Annette Gordon-Reed

It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own. — Annette Gordon-Reed

Love has been many things throughout history: the simple comfort of the familiar, having a person to know and being known by that person in return; a connection born of shared experiences, an irrational joy in another's presence; a particular calming influence that one member of the couple may exert on the other, or that they both provide to one another. A combination of all these and myriad other things can go into making one person wish to stay tied to another. Anyone who is not in the couple--that is, everyone else in the world--will not understand precisely how or why it works for two people. — Annette Gordon-Reed

I do believe that actions often speak louder than words. — Annette Gordon-Reed

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if this were something that set Jefferson apart from all mankind. — Annette Gordon-Reed