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Ellen Goodman

An innovative force in American journalism, Ellen Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist. Known for her keen intellect and wit, Goodman’s syndicated column appears in more than 440 newspapers. Five collections of Ellen Goodman’s newspaper columns have been published: Close to Home (1979), At Large (1981), Keeping in Touch (1985), Making Sense (1989), and Value Judgments (1993). She also authored a book, Turning Points (1979), which explored how Americans coped with changes brought about by the feminist movement.

“You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.”

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

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.”

                          

“If there’s a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there’s a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshiped there for some time.”

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

“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe and aren’t even aware of.”

     

“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.”

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.”

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”

- Ellen Goodman  (1941- )

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