Ellen Goodman

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

— Ellen Goodman

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

— Ellen Goodman

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

— Ellen Goodman

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

— Ellen Goodman

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

— Ellen Goodman

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

— Ellen Goodman

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

— Ellen Goodman

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

— Ellen Goodman

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

— Ellen Goodman

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

— Ellen Goodman

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a…

— Ellen Goodman

The things we hate about ourselves arent more real than things we like about ourselves.

— Ellen Goodman

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

— Ellen Goodman

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice…

— Ellen Goodman

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals…

— Ellen Goodman

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps…

— Ellen Goodman

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

Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line…

— Ellen Goodman

On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not…

— Ellen Goodman

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

We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation…

— Ellen Goodman

What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when…

— Ellen Goodman

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become…

— Ellen Goodman

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed…

— Ellen Goodman

There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our…

— Ellen Goodman

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

Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would…

— Ellen Goodman

“There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a…

— Ellen Goodman

I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face…

— Ellen Goodman

Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care…

— Ellen Goodman

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

— Ellen Goodman

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

— Ellen Goodman

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

— Ellen Goodman

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

— Ellen Goodman

It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

— Ellen Goodman

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

— Ellen Goodman

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

— Ellen Goodman

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a…

— Ellen Goodman

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

— Ellen Goodman

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even…

— Ellen Goodman