Ellen Goodman Quotes

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.