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Ellen Goodman quotes: I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
Ellen Goodman quotes: We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing. We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in. Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.
Ellen Goodman quotes: How come pleasure never makes it on to ... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it? How come pleasure never makes it on to ... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?
Ellen Goodman quotes: People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
Ellen Goodman quotes: What he labels sexual, she labels harassment. What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.
Ellen Goodman quotes: My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk." My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."
Ellen Goodman quotes: The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking. The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.
Ellen Goodman quotes: What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ. What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first. Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
Ellen Goodman quotes: You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experienceunless they are still up. Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience
unless they are still up.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe. Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.
Ellen Goodman quotes: When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue. Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
Ellen Goodman quotes: I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils. I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils.
Ellen Goodman quotes: When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need. When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them. Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.
Ellen Goodman quotes: In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.
Ellen Goodman quotes: The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
Ellen Goodman quotes: We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals. We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.
Ellen Goodman quotes: She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic. She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined. Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.
Ellen Goodman quotes: [E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper. [E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.
Ellen Goodman quotes: I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious. I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.
Ellen Goodman quotes: It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made. Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable. Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
Ellen Goodman quotes: In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often. In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it. Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.
Ellen Goodman quotes: You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.
Ellen Goodman quotes: It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through. It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.
Ellen Goodman quotes: When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act. When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Ellen Goodman quotes: You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Ellen Goodman quotes: If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there? If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?
Ellen Goodman quotes: The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears
Ellen Goodman quotes: Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor. Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.
Ellen Goodman quotes: Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options. Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.
Ellen Goodman quotes: We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
Ellen Goodman quotes: We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned. We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

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