Ellen Goodman Short Quotes

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Welfare is... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

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Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

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It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

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If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

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I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils.

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The last boat to the middle class was leaving and we'd better get on it.

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For ninety-one years, he did something remarkable. He stayed interested.

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You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

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Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

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Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

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In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

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Our mistakes become crucial parts, sometimes the best parts, of the lives we have made.

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The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

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People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

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Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience — unless they are still up.

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Adolescence isn't a training ground for adulthood now; it is a holding pattern for aging youth.

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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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We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

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Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

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Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

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He was the sort of man who looked like he was wearing a tie even in a sports shirt. He could be rigid in a hammock.

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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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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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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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When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

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Forty is... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

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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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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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