There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It... by Ellen Goodman

Life Author Job Writing journalist

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

- Ellen Goodman

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You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

- Ellen Goodman

Want

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

- Ellen Goodman

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

- Ellen Goodman

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

- Ellen Goodman

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.

- Ellen Goodman

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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

- Ellen Goodman

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