Ellen Goodman Quotes, Thoughts and Images

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

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

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

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

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.

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

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

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

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

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

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

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

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

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.

In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

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.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

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

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.