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

  Ellen Goodman

  Encouraging, Confidence, Hate

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• Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

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  Trendy, Items, Values

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

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• The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

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  Time, Believe, Loss

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

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

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  Fall, Yesterday, Culture

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• I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

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  Religious, Moving, Acceptance

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

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  Thinking, Self, Conscious

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• Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

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  Numbers, Pet, Energy

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• Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

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  Mean, Civility, Said

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

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  Enough, Institutions, Access

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• 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.

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  Worry, Becoming, Superwoman

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

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

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  Firsts, Journalism, Tension

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

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  Growth, Our Lives

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

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  Writing, People, Movement

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• 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.

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  Issues, Today, Rooms

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• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

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  Children, Artist, Average

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

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• What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.

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  Life, Summer, Home

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• There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.

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  Ignorance, Opportunity, Progress

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

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• What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

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  Labels, Harassment

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• Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

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  Parent, Missing, Traveler

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Powerful, Mind, Tradition

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• How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

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  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

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

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

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  Good Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

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  Education, Children, School

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

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• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

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  Social Values, Recycling, Boxes

  "Saigon Swap". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1990.

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