Maureen Dowd Quote

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.


The New York Times (21 May 2000)


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...

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...

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...

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...