Littles Quotes by Ellen Goodman

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

— Ellen Goodman

Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a…

— Ellen Goodman

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

— Ellen Goodman

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we…

— Ellen Goodman

The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in…

— Ellen Goodman

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

— 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

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

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

— Ellen Goodman

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

— Ellen Goodman

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are…

— Ellen Goodman

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

— Ellen Goodman