Ellen Goodman Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Loss, Age, Lines

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Fall, Yesterday, Culture

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• Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

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  Trendy, Items, Values

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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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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  Numbers, Pet, Energy

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• The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.

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  Change, Games, Feelings

  Ellen Goodman (1979). “Turning Points”, Doubleday Books

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

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  Encouraging, Confidence, Hate

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• Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

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  Mean, Civility, Said

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• women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.

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  Worry, Becoming, Superwoman

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

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  Enough, Institutions, Access

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

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  Writing, People, Movement

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

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  Firsts, Journalism, Tension

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• We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

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  Growth, Our Lives

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• Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

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  Issues, Today, Rooms

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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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  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.

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  Life, Summer, Home

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• There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.

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  Ignorance, Opportunity, Progress

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

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  Labels, Harassment

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• How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

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  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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

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  Good Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

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  Thinking, Self, Conscious

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• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

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  Social Values, Recycling, Boxes

  "Saigon Swap". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1990.

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• Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

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  Adaptation, Ifs

  Ellen Goodman (1979). “Turning Points”, Doubleday Books

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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 and aren't even aware of.

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  Powerful, Mind, Tradition

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• The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.

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  Children, Motherhood, Focus

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• We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and - not always, but often enough - reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

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  Baby, Holiday, Innovation

  Ellen Goodman (1979). “Turning Points”, Doubleday Books

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