Pretty girls Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin