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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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Needs, Looks, Want

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

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• All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

  Ellen Goodman

  Government, People, Independence

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• I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

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  Past, Holocaust, Impossible

  "Ellen Goodman: Global warning". Boston Globe op-ed, www.post-gazette.com. February 09, 2007.

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

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  Time, Saving, Primacy

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

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• we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

  Ellen Goodman

  Yesterday, Transition, Today

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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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  Hero, Choices, Want

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

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• Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Important

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

  Ellen Goodman

  Math, Two, Long

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

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

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  Compassion, Welfare, Victim

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• She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

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  Prejudice, Statistics

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• 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.

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  Caring, Vocabulary, Rights

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• We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?

  Ellen Goodman

  Photography, Home, Picture Taking

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• You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Writing, Divorce

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• In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

  Ellen Goodman

  Iron, Revolution, Steel

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

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