All Ellen Goodman Quotes
- Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. Accumulation
- My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he… Father
- Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for… Ambivalence
- Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. Both
- 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 now… Deniers
- You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. Care
- When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our… Describe
- All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged… Adults
- Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to. Adaptation
- It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through. Begun
- We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. Experience
- I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract.… Add
- When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. Divorced
- How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect… Dutiful
- There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -… Begins
- Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order… Afford
- We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave… Always Let
- We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of… Chemistry
- I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those… Awed
- We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe… Balance