We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice… — Ellen Goodman Choices Copy Share Image
We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman Care Copy Share Image
Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers. — Ellen Goodman Climate Copy Share Image
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. — Ellen Goodman Hate Copy Share Image
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. — Ellen Goodman Journalism Copy Share Image
Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then… — Ellen Goodman Anxiety Copy Share Image
We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line… — Ellen Goodman Beverly hills Copy Share Image
On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not… — Ellen Goodman Attitude Copy Share Image
I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours… — Ellen Goodman Ballot Copy Share Image
The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become… — Ellen Goodman Absolutes Copy Share Image
We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation… — Ellen Goodman Baby Copy Share Image
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 Advertising Copy Share Image
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… — Ellen Goodman Exercise Copy Share Image
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished… — Ellen Goodman Heroic Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. — Ellen Goodman Growth Copy Share Image
Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. — Ellen Goodman After death Copy Share Image
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. — Ellen Goodman Culture Copy Share Image
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman Books Copy Share Image
In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often. — Ellen Goodman Amphetamines Copy Share Image
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. — Ellen Goodman Feminism Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out… — Ellen Goodman Abstract Copy Share Image
Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to… — Ellen Goodman Ability Copy Share Image
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming… — Ellen Goodman Climate Copy Share Image
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more… — Ellen Goodman Change Copy Share Image
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