11 Ellen Goodman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ellen Goodman

American Journalist

Born: Apr 11, 1948

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Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. Ellen Goodman

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There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value. Ellen Goodman

Life Relationship Vision Job Value Stage Recognize Trick Over Without Leaving Go Exit Denying Graceful Begins Means Let Go

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

You Fire Secretary Abandon Remain Divorce Spouse Forever Children Your

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? Ellen Goodman

Parenting Gave Fathers Our Distance Hook Criticize More Always How Mothers Off Expected Closeness Them Us Less Many Appreciated

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice. Ellen Goodman

Job Living Think Society Changes Despite Way Having Voice Observing Journalism Make Still Fantastic Use Your Chance

When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did. Ellen Goodman

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Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in. Ellen Goodman

Values Trendy Casually Traded Items

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

Hate Ourselves About More Like Real Than Things

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

Experience Back Our Our Lives Learned Owned Lives Growth

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. Ellen Goodman

World Think Tried Never Feminist

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