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 Live alone 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
Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps… — Ellen Goodman Age 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
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated… — Ellen Goodman Appreciate Copy Share Image
We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice… — Ellen Goodman Choices Copy Share Image
If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better… — Ellen Goodman Better yourself Copy Share Image
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Age 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
If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there? — Ellen Goodman Sleep Copy Share Image
Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue. — Ellen Goodman Compassion Copy Share Image
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 Attitude Copy Share Image
We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals. — Ellen Goodman Addresses Copy Share Image
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 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
Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it. — Ellen Goodman Ideas 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
I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make… — Ellen Goodman Chance Copy Share Image
In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often. — Ellen Goodman Amphetamines 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
I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals… — Ellen Goodman Children 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 Feminist Copy Share Image
