The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
"Ellen Goodman" is an American journalist and syndicated columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. She is also a speaker and commentator. She is noted for being one of the first women in the United States to discuss women's rights openly - though this is absurd to anyone who knows anything about history.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Ellen Goodman on Wikipedia.Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
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.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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.
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
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.
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
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.
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.
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?
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