Ellen Goodman Quotes

It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

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

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It 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.

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

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