Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it. — Ellen Goodman Ideas Copy Share Image
Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined. — Ellen Goodman Primacy Copy Share Image
It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through. — Ellen Goodman Inspirational Copy Share Image
My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a… — Ellen Goodman Father Copy Share Image
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. — Ellen Goodman Dawn Copy Share Image
Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps… — Ellen Goodman Age Copy Share Image
I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals… — Ellen Goodman Children Copy Share Image
“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears” — Ellen Goodman Child Copy Share Image
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman Communication Copy Share Image
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. — Ellen Goodman Feminism Copy Share Image
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even… — Ellen Goodman Conscious mind Copy Share Image
Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are… — Ellen Goodman Excess Copy Share Image
In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists… — Ellen Goodman Biotech Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Acceptance Copy Share Image
The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us… — Ellen Goodman Absolutes Copy Share Image
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent… — Ellen Goodman Abortion Copy Share Image
I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our… — Ellen Goodman Complexes Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care… — Ellen Goodman Buying Copy Share Image
“There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a… — Ellen Goodman Closure Copy Share Image
I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Accumulation Copy Share Image
Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue. — Ellen Goodman Compassion Copy Share Image
If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there? — Ellen Goodman Sleep Copy Share Image
The things we hate about ourselves arent more real than things we like about ourselves. — Ellen Goodman Hate Copy Share Image
When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a… — Ellen Goodman Live alone Copy Share Image
Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them. — Ellen Goodman Access Copy Share Image
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
