143 Quotes by Ellen Goodman

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

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

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

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

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

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.

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

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

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.