If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men. — Maureen Dowd Learning Copy Share Image
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. — Maureen Dowd Acceptance Copy Share Image
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional. — Maureen Dowd American exceptionalism 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
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd Blacks Copy Share Image
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. — Maureen Dowd Doom Copy Share Image
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand Luke's defiance,… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the… — Maureen Dowd Facts Copy Share Image
“We've become a nation of Frankensteins, and our monster is us. With everyone working so hard at altering their facades, we no… — Maureen Dowd Natural selection Copy Share Image
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that… — Maureen Dowd America Copy Share Image
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked… — Maureen Dowd Bears Copy Share Image
We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it?… — Maureen Dowd Advancement Copy Share Image
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… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in… — Maureen Dowd Admiration Copy Share Image
I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the… — Maureen Dowd Cocktail parties Copy Share Image
The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education… — Maureen Dowd Battle Copy Share Image
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world… — Maureen Dowd Greatness Copy Share Image
Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful. — Maureen Dowd Beautiful Copy Share Image
Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to… — Maureen Dowd Dinner Copy Share Image
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act… — Maureen Dowd Bored 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
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen. — Maureen Dowd 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
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans. — Maureen Dowd America 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her… — Maureen Dowd Hell hath no fury Copy Share Image
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it… — Maureen Dowd Conservatives Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. — Maureen Dowd Authority Copy Share Image
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