Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. — Maureen Dowd Authority Copy Share Image
My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad. — Maureen Dowd Actually Copy Share Image
“We had the Belle Epoque. Now we have the Botox Epoque, permeated by plastic emotions from antidepressants and plastic veneers from collagen,… — Maureen Dowd Botox Copy Share Image
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen. — Maureen Dowd Anna Copy Share Image
I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was. — Maureen Dowd Clever Copy Share Image
The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No… — Maureen Dowd About Copy Share Image
Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept… — Maureen Dowd Accepting Copy Share Image
“Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they are equal to men and liberated, but… — Maureen Dowd Empire state Copy Share Image
“So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is?… — Maureen Dowd 2010 Copy Share Image
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not… — Maureen Dowd Bells Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd 21st century Copy Share Image
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage.… — Maureen Dowd Appreciate Copy Share Image
Yet it's true that looks matter in politics... It is also true that perfecting the outer shell has become an obsession in… — Maureen Dowd Barack Copy Share Image
“We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.” — Maureen Dowd Evolution Copy Share Image
“Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their… — Maureen Dowd Fear Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not… — Maureen Dowd Agreement Copy Share Image
