Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Bridgid Dowdis an American columnist for The New York Times, and a best-selling author...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 January 1952
journalism natural columns
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
jesus thinking government
And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.
fun thinking giving
I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'
evolve decided
Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.
writing adrenaline
It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.
cowboy evil good-and-evil
Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.
men tides months
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.
two feds century
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
trying muzzle looks
It is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.
reading pixels digital
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.
kids years car
Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.
beautiful way forgotten
Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.
men sin pins
It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.
running military smart
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.