Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodmanis an American journalist and syndicated columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. She is also a speaker and commentator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
white people house
Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
believe rights womens-rights
You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.
time saving primacy
Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.
numbers pet machines
Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.
educational after-hours television
Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.
loyalty defense waste
What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.
writing thinking firsts
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
speech language ritual
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
growth our-lives
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
exercise joy lists
How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?
past may heroic
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
cancer people smoking
The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.
writing add few-words
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
thinking rocks littles
[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.