Quote by Ellen Goodman
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, drivin

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. – Ellen Goodman

Other quotes by Ellen Goodman

We spend January1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential. – Ellen Goodman

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January
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We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? – Ellen Goodman

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parenting
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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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Morning
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Other Quotes from
car
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Its funny Im in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I dont fish, I dont hunt, Im not that into sports. I cant fix a car. I think its my point of view and the way I see the world. – Corey Stoll

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car

Sometimes I feel like Im not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me. – Sandra Lee

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car

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isnt really about loving cars. Its sort of about needing them. – Matthew Barney

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car

Boys, they cant take my refrigerator now. Theyll never get my car now. I paid cash for em and theyre mine, and Im keepin em! – Patsy Cline

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car

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The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick – who was an Irishman only by adoption. – Stephen Gwynn

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