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The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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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, aren't even aware of.
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We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
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Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.
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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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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.
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Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.
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Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.
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The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.
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In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?
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Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.
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People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
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How do you make a life? Put one foot in front of the other. Make some choices. Take some chances.
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The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.
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My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become THE imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.
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Our mistakes become crucial parts, sometimes the best parts, of the lives we have made.
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We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
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I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils.
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Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.
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It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.
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The last boat to the middle class was leaving and we'd better get on it.
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On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.
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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.
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We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.
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Ellen Goodman
Born:
April 11, 1941
(age 82)
Bio:
Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and syndicated columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. She is also a speaker and commentator.
Known for:
I know just what you mean (2000)
Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times (2004)
Value judgments (1993)
The origins of the Western legal tradition (1995)
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