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
needs stuff different
When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.
cute believe kids
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.
silence attention sound
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
funny success motivational-sports
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
should wells contempt
Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.
men
I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.
years holocaust religion
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.
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.'
wall character blue
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'