Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Bridgid Dowdis an American columnist for The New York Times, and a best-selling author...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 January 1952
writing thinking black
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.
agreement people style
Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.
deserve-you want way
Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for
reading pixels digital
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.
journalism natural columns
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
russia pennsylvania use
Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It's like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke.
wall jeans touching
I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.
glasses people noses
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.
struggle firsts journalism
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
enough ifs
If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.
party talking texting
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.
beautiful giving democracy
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
dinner evening tvs
Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.
want cost protected
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.