The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. — Maureen Dowd Acceptance Copy Share Image
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional. — Maureen Dowd American exceptionalism Copy Share Image
I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men. — Maureen Dowd Learning Copy Share Image
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd Afghanistan Copy Share Image
Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it… — Maureen Dowd Conservatives Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
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… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big… — Maureen Dowd Alive Copy Share Image
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can… — Maureen Dowd Abandonment Copy Share Image
The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they are equal to men and liberated, but… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new… — Maureen Dowd Abortion Copy Share Image
“Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first… — Maureen Dowd Civil war Copy Share Image
Yet it's true that looks matter in politics... It is also true that perfecting the outer shell has become an obsession in… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select… — Maureen Dowd Arrogant Copy Share Image
“McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that… — Maureen Dowd Absurd Copy Share Image
“McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
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