Maureen Dowd Quotes
Top 41 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing - or one person - at a time.
American women are evolving backward
becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.
becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.
We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.
Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.
The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their bunnies.
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.