"The central struggle of parenthood is to let……" — Ellen Goodman
"The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears."
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43 Quotes by Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman has 43 quotes on this site.
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
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Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for…
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe…
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems.…
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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence…
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Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
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She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
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What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The…
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It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to…
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Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.
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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important…
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
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Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate…
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide…
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At…
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world…
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