Ellen Goodman Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

  Ellen Goodman

  Speech, Language, Ritual

• I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

  Ellen Goodman

  Religious, Moving, Acceptance

• 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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Caring, Vocabulary, Rights

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