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
educational after-hours television
Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.
loyalty defense waste
What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.
writing thinking firsts
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
speech language ritual
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
growth our-lives
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
exercise joy lists
How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?
past may heroic
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
cancer people smoking
The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.
writing add few-words
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
thinking rocks littles
[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.
caring rights vocabulary
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.
firsts journalism tension
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
children struggle parenthood
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
generations stories next
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.