Quotes by Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman

[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.

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Rocks

Thinking

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Age

Lines

Loss

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Government

Independence

People

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.

Book

Emotional

Sports

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

Civility

Mean

Said

Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It’s not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that’s destructive.

After Hours

Educational

Television

Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. … We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

Energy

Numbers

Pet

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.

Important

Jobs

Thinking

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

Age

Fifty

People

How come pleasure never makes it on to… a dutiful list of do’s and don’ts? Doesn’t joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

Exercise

Joy

Lists

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Quotes by Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman

[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.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It’s not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that’s destructive.

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.

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

How come pleasure never makes it on to… a dutiful list of do’s and don’ts? Doesn’t joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

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