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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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• 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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Memories, Grandpa, Video

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• What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.

  Ellen Goodman

  Loyalty, Energy, Needs

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

  Ellen Goodman

  Enough, Institutions, Access

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• 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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Toothpaste, Middle, Persons

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

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

  Ellen Goodman

  Morning, Cheerful, Odor

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

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• The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.

  Ellen Goodman

  Change, Games, Feelings

  Ellen Goodman (1979). “Turning Points”, Doubleday Books

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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?

  Ellen Goodman

  Religious, Moving, Acceptance

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

  Ellen Goodman

  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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Numbers, Pet, Energy

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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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Life, Summer, Home

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

  Ellen Goodman

  Mean, Civility, Said

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

  Ellen Goodman

  Firsts, Journalism, Tension

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

  Ellen Goodman

  Growth, Our Lives

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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.

  Ellen Goodman

  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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

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

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

  Ellen Goodman

  Writing, People, Movement

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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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Ignorance, Opportunity, Progress

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

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• What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

  Ellen Goodman

  Labels, Harassment

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• I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

  Ellen Goodman

  Rap, School, Careers

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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.

  Ellen Goodman

  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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

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

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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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• 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.

  Ellen Goodman

  Past, Holocaust, Impossible

  "Ellen Goodman: Global warning". Boston Globe op-ed, www.post-gazette.com. February 09, 2007.

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• She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

  Ellen Goodman

  Prejudice, Statistics

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