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
caring rights vocabulary
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.
firsts journalism tension
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
children struggle parenthood
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
generations stories next
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.
confidence real hate
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
summer home thinking
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
sleep way ifs
If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?
mother distance father
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?
compassion welfare victim
Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.
sad-love letting-go jobs
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.
jobs humor order
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.
good-morning sleep insomnia
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
new-year years old-year
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
mistake sometimes made
Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.