The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there? — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals… — 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
