"When speech is divorced from speaker and word……" — Ellen Goodman

"When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual."

— Ellen Goodman

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43 Quotes by Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for…
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe…
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems.…
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence…
Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The…
It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to…

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More Divorced Quotes

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My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that.… — Michele Bachmann
I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were… — Don Adams
What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president? — Michael Bloomberg
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me. — Elayne Boosler
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of… — Vera Brittain
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love… — Joseph Campbell
I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire. — Bobby Hull
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness… — John Henry Jowett
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell
...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a… — Louis C. K.
Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from. — Nora Ephron
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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