Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved… — Ellen Goodman 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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe. — Ellen Goodman 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
How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. — Ellen Goodman 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 Copy Share Image
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many… — Ellen Goodman 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 Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious. — 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 immigrants we… — Ellen Goodman 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 backout in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. — 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
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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
