Maureen Dowd

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

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Celebrity is the religion of our time.

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Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.

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Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

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If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

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I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

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If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

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I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

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Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

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The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

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It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

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“Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her…

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Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

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My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

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“We had the Belle Epoque. Now we have the Botox Epoque, permeated by plastic emotions from antidepressants and plastic veneers from collagen,…

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A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

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It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet…

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The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's…

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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

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I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version…

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Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not…

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President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in…

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Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the…

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I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love…

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The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education…

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When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the…

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I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the…

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“McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of…

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The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select…

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Yet it's true that looks matter in politics... It is also true that perfecting the outer shell has become an obsession in…

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Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new…

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“Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first…

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“McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside…

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Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that…

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Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended…

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Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

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It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

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When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose.

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