"Today, much of journalism and politics are in……" — Ellen Goodman
"Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack."
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43 Quotes by Ellen Goodman
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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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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
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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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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with…
— Tony Campolo
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
— David Seabury
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:…
— Adrienne Rich
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows…
— Paul de Man
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Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the…
— Judith Levine
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill…
— Winston Churchill
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the…
— Luce Irigaray
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set…
— Erma Bombeck
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Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space…
— Joan Mitchell
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It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this…
— John Scott
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
— Michel de Certeau
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