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
attitude thinking television
On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.
jobs thinking important
Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.
thinking self conscious
I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.
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.
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.
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.
buy notion people supporting
Frankly, people who buy Showtime pay-per-view are supporting him and supporting the notion that you can get away with anything.
agency food head michael sights turn
Now that we have waved 'Bye, Bye, Brownie' to Michael Brown, the hapless head of FEMA, could we turn our sights back to another agency on the skids: the Food and Drug Administration?
balance cracks drawing january list looking maybe ought room rooms spend walking work
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.
column dreams fax inevitable remains technology xerox
Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.
break closed doors easier movement open society turns walk women work
The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.
chance despite fantastic job living observing society
I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.
feminist tried
It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.
call finding good harriet trouble
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.