When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman Communication Copy Share Image
“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears” — Ellen Goodman Child Copy Share Image
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. — Ellen Goodman Culture Copy Share Image
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman Books Copy Share Image
women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now… — Ellen Goodman Asks 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
Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. — Ellen Goodman After death Copy Share Image
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen… — Ellen Goodman Firsts Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Acceptance 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
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
When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to… — Ellen Goodman Act Copy Share Image
It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are… — Ellen Goodman Excess Copy Share Image
Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited… — Ellen Goodman Alternative 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
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
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. — Ellen Goodman Growth Copy Share Image
What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ. — Ellen Goodman Advertisers Copy Share Image
It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. — Ellen Goodman Feminism Copy Share Image
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the… — Ellen Goodman Looks Copy Share Image
In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often. — Ellen Goodman Amphetamines Copy Share Image
Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made. — Ellen Goodman Crucial 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
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
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman Get real Copy Share Image
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. — Ellen Goodman Journalism Copy Share Image
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. — Ellen Goodman Hate Copy Share Image
Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers. — Ellen Goodman Climate 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
Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor. — Ellen Goodman Boots Copy Share Image
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished… — Ellen Goodman Heroic 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
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
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who… — Ellen Goodman Ends Copy Share Image
Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty… — Ellen Goodman Ambivalence Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments,… — Ellen Goodman Business Copy Share Image
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship… — Ellen Goodman Dreams Copy Share Image
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.… — Ellen Goodman Accountants 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 Behavior Copy Share Image
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I… — Ellen Goodman Add Copy Share Image
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