Maureen Dowd Quotes

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Maureen Dowd

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• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Thing

• I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writer
  • Worked
  • Journalist

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Job
  • American
  • Speak

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Struggle
  • For Him

• I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Energy
  • Law

• I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Never
  • Journalism
  • Outsider

• My weight has always been a struggle for me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Always
  • Struggle

• To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Up
  • Money
  • End

• In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Always
  • Journalism
  • Obvious

• It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Like

• The struggle against imperialism, for liberation from colonial or neocolonial shackles, which is being carried out by means of political weapons, arms, or a combination of the two, is not separate from the struggle against backwardness and poverty. Both are stages on the same road leading toward the creation of a new society of justice and plenty.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Society
  • Political
  • Justice

• He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Service
  • Debt

• It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.

  

  David Plouffe
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Time
  • American
  • Meaning

• [On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Struggle
  • Journalism
  • Journalist