Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.
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“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.”
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Ellen Goodman
“You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.”
“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?”
“There’s a trick to the “graceful exit.” It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.”
“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right”
“Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.”
“Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.”
“I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box”
“The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.”
“There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. I begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.”