Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd Afghanistan Copy Share Image
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight. — 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
[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
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
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
If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world… — Maureen Dowd 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
And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are… — Maureen Dowd Bankers 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
“Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they are equal to men and liberated, but… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“{My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was… — Maureen Dowd Feeling blue 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 Copy Share Image
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our… — Maureen Dowd 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
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person… — Maureen Dowd Attention Copy Share Image
“American women are evolving backward--becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism.” — Maureen Dowd American women Copy Share Image
“Instead of broadening the choices of how to look good, we have only broadened the ways we try to look alike. Women… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Who knows? If women all end up with the same face and body, men may gravitate toward the quirky. Then the chicks… — Maureen Dowd 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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