Ellen Goodman Quotes



Best 6 At Large Quotes by Ellen Goodman

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“Forty is an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.”

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“I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.”

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“If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.”

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“If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?”

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“Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.”

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“We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.”

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