Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodmanis an American journalist and syndicated columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. She is also a speaker and commentator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.
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Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
powerful mind tradition
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.
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When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.
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Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.
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Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
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It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.
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The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.
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I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.
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People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
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Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
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You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.
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Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.
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Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.