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. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
It’s self-deceptive to think we’re in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
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. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I’m having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
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. Ellen Goodman Read Quote
