Ellen Goodman

When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did. ”

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

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. ”

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

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

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice. ”

Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed. ”

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

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. ”

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. ”