Maureen Dowd Quotes

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.

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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.

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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.

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Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

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Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

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Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

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The Princess of Wales was the queen of surfaces, ruling over a kingdom where fame was the highest value and glamour the most cherished attribute.

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Never write anything down, and never throw away anything that other people have written down.

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Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

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Fashion here echoes politics; skirts and hairstyles usually end up at compromise lengths designed not to offend anyone or make a statement of any kind. Like Presidents, skirts try to please all of the people all of the time — and often end up pleasing none.

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It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

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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.

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You can't push a morally muscular foreign policy by subverting morality. And you can't occupy a country only to trade one corrupt regime for another.

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Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

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Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

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Never ask a guy who's in a bubble if he's in a bubble. He can't answer. 'Cause he's in a bubble.

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A month after Powell's speech, New York Times columnist Maureen Down remarked that it was no wonder Americans were confused; the United states was about to go to war against a country that did not attack it on September 11, as did al-Queda; that did not intercept its planes, as did North Korea; that did not finance al-Queda, as did Saudi Arabia; that was not home to Osama bin Laden's lieutenants, as was Pakistan; and was not a host body for terrorists, as were Iran and Syria.

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A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

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Shoot to kill. There's no such thing as wounding. And never interfere with your enemy when he's in the process of damaging himself.

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These are not grounds for impeachment. These are grounds for divorce.

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