Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Accumulation 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… — Ellen Goodman Computers Copy Share Image
I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious. — Ellen Goodman Conscious 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… — Ellen Goodman Descendants 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… — Ellen Goodman Absolutes Copy Share Image
You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right. — Ellen Goodman Believe 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 Best year 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 Advertising 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 Care Copy Share Image
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman Get real 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… — Ellen Goodman Deny Copy Share Image
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. — Ellen Goodman Growth Copy Share Image
We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation… — Ellen Goodman Baby Copy Share Image
Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then… — Ellen Goodman Anxiety Copy Share Image
Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined. — Ellen Goodman Primacy Copy Share Image
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 Activity Copy Share Image
[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper. — Ellen Goodman Bottom Copy Share Image
“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears” — Ellen Goodman Children 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 Beverly hills Copy Share Image
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 Conscious mind Copy Share Image
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. — Ellen Goodman Any Copy Share Image
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… — Ellen Goodman Exercise Copy Share Image
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 Always Copy Share Image
In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists… — Ellen Goodman Biotech Copy Share Image
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent… — Ellen Goodman Abortion Copy Share Image
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