Ellen Goodman Quotes

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

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

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

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

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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.

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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?

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We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives.. Not looking for flaws, but for potential.

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Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

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