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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

Topics: Afford All Day Buy Car Clothes Day Dressed Driving Empty Get Getting Getting Dressed House Job Leave Live Need Normal Order Pay Paying Still Through Traffic Work You

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

~Ellen Goodman

Topics: Always Been Between First Getting Journalism Right Tension

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Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

~Ellen Goodman

Topics: Casually Items Traded Trendy Values

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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.

~Ellen Goodman

Topics: Begins Denying Exit Go Graceful Job Leaving Let Go Life Means Over Recognize Relationship Stage Trick Value Vision Without

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

~Ellen Goodman

Topics: Attractive Consider Dawn Experience Most People Still Unless Up

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When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did.

~Ellen Goodman

Topics: Act Actually Against Before Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Act Did Discriminate Four Know Legal Like Magazine Miles Really Rights School Snow Sounds Started Walked Which Women You

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The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

~Ellen Goodman

Topics: About Hate Like More Ourselves Real Than Things

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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.

~Ellen Goodman

Topics: Aware Deep Describe Driven Even Minds Most Most Powerful Our Powerful Subconscious Those Traditions

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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

Topics: Describe Like Look Need Often Other Our Person Picture Prism Really Suppose Through Want

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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?

~Ellen Goodman

Topics: Always Appreciated Closeness Criticize Distance Expected Fathers Gave Hook How Less Many More Mothers Off Our Them Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 11th, 1948

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