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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman

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

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in. — Ellen Goodman

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

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. — Ellen Goodman

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment. — Ellen Goodman

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

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

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

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

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. — Ellen Goodman

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience
unless they are still up. — Ellen Goodman

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe. — Ellen Goodman

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue. — Ellen Goodman

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

I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils. — Ellen Goodman

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

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them. — Ellen Goodman

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. — Ellen Goodman

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. — Ellen Goodman

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. — Ellen Goodman

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals. — Ellen Goodman

I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast. — Ellen Page

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic. — Ellen Goodman

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined. — Ellen Goodman

[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

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious. — Ellen Goodman

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. — Ellen Goodman

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made. — Ellen Goodman

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable. — Ellen Goodman

In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often. — Ellen Goodman

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it. — Ellen Goodman

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. — Ellen Goodman

It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through. — Ellen Goodman

Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. — Ellen Goodman

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers. — Ellen Goodman

This is the only time in our lives we fall madly in love before we know what the person is like. ~Ellen Goodman — Lesley Stahl

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

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. — Ellen Goodman

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. — Ellen Goodman

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there? — Ellen Goodman

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears — Ellen Goodman

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor. — Ellen Goodman

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

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. — Ellen Goodman

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. — Ellen Goodman