As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them. — Maureen Dowd Fear Copy Share Image
When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose. — Maureen Dowd Fight Copy Share Image
Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt. — Maureen Dowd Contempt Copy Share Image
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. — Maureen Dowd Authority Copy Share Image
“Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her… — Maureen Dowd Hell hath no fury Copy Share Image
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans. — Maureen Dowd America Copy Share Image
My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“We had the Belle Epoque. Now we have the Botox Epoque, permeated by plastic emotions from antidepressants and plastic veneers from collagen,… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd Blacks Copy Share Image
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. — Maureen Dowd Doom Copy Share Image
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is?… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“{My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was… — Maureen Dowd Feeling blue Copy Share Image
When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the… — Maureen Dowd Brick wall Copy Share Image
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that… — Maureen Dowd America Copy Share Image
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked… — Maureen Dowd Bears Copy Share Image
We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it?… — Maureen Dowd Advancement Copy Share Image
He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand Luke's defiance,… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the… — Maureen Dowd Facts Copy Share Image
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world… — Maureen Dowd Greatness Copy Share Image
“We've become a nation of Frankensteins, and our monster is us. With everyone working so hard at altering their facades, we no… — Maureen Dowd Natural selection Copy Share Image
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was. — Maureen Dowd Clever Copy Share Image
Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful. — Maureen Dowd Beautiful Copy Share Image
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act… — Maureen Dowd Bored Copy Share Image
Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to… — Maureen Dowd Dinner Copy Share Image
“We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.” — Maureen Dowd Evolution Copy Share Image
“American women are evolving backward--becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.” — Maureen Dowd American women Copy Share Image
“Instead of broadening the choices of how to look good, we have only broadened the ways we try to look alike. Women… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Who knows? If women all end up with the same face and body, men may gravitate toward the quirky. Then the chicks… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their… — Maureen Dowd Fear Copy Share Image
And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are… — Maureen Dowd Bankers Copy Share Image
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