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
volleyball eye garden
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.
want cost protected
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.
ideas american-exceptionalism exceptional
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.
writing
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.
enough ifs
If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.
Are women necessary? Not with Ava around
lasts source betray
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
writing another-woman ifs
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
sex party fighting
The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.
dream daughter loss
Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that 'demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters' [...] It would have been better to put this language in the platform: 'A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.'
writing thinking black
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.
people charity earth
The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.
beautiful giving democracy
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
exercise might lasts
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.