List of Maureen Dowd Quotes

The Mayans Were Right, As It Turns Out, When They Predicted The World Would End In 2012. It Was Just A Select World: The G.o.p. Universe Of Arrogant, Uptight, Entitled, Bossy, Retrogressive White Guys. [...] Instead Of Smallpox, Plagues, Drought And Conquistadors, The Republican Decline Will Be Traced To A Stubborn Refusal To Adapt To A World Where Poor People And Sick People And Black People And Brown People And Female People And Gay People Count.

Afghanistan Is More Than The 'graveyard Of Empires.' It's The Mother Of Vicious Circles.

Settling Is About Not Embracing What Is Best For You And Accepting What You Really Don't Want. When You Settle, You Accept Less Than You Deserve. Settling Becomes A Habit And A Way Of Life, But It Doesn't Have To Be. According To Maureen Dowd, "the Minute You Settle For Less Than You Deserve, You Get Even Less Than You Settled For

My Eating Habits Were So Bad For Many Years That I Didn't Actually Know The Intricacies Of Making A Salad.

I Think Hillary Clinton's A Very Clever Politician But She Would Be Too Easy To Stereotype The Way John Kerry Was.

Washington Is A Place Where People Have Always Been Suspect Of Style And Overt Sexuality. Too Much Preening Signals That You're Not Up Late Studying Cap-and-trade Agreements.

As Blue Chips Turn Into Penny Stocks, Wall Street Seems Less Like A Symbol Of America's Macho Capitalism And More Like That Famous Jane Austen Character Mrs. Bennet, A Flibbertigibbet Always Anxious About Getting Richer And Her 'poor Nerves.'

[on Journalists:] We Are A Noisy, Imperfect Lot, Struggling To Scribble What Has Been Called The First Draft Of History.

I Feel Like I Owe It To The Readers To Try To Pull Back The Veil And Give Them The Honest Version Of What's Going On. But It's Not More Fun. If Obama, As He Does Sometimes Already, Gets A Little Snippy With Me About Something I've Written, You're Thinking, 'oh God, The President Of The United States Is Already Annoyed With Me.'

Now That Hillary [clinton] Has Won Pennsylvania, It Will Take A Village To Help Obama Escape From The Suffocating Embrace Of His Rival. Certainly Howard Dean Will Be Of No Use Steering Her To The Exit. It’s Like Micronesia Telling Russia To Denuke.

Tweetin' Ain't Cheatin'.

For Two Centuries, The South Has Feared A Takeover By Blacks Or The Feds. In Obama, They Have Both.

I Strained To Remember Where I Was Or Even What I Was Wearing, Touching My Green Corduroy Jeans And Staring At The Exposed-brick Wall. As My Paranoia Deepened, I Became Convinced That I Had Died And No One Was Telling Me.

Personally, I've Decided To Stop Evolving.

I Think Even The Hollywood Money People Are Saying They've Got To Get The Party Back From The Clinton Wing. They Can't, You Know, Keep Nominating These Northeast Liberals. They Have To Look For People Who Can Win.

Feminism Died In 1998 When Hillary Allowed Henchlings And Democrats To Demonize Monica As An Unbalanced Stalker, And When Gloria Steinem Defended Mr. Clinton Against Kathleen Willey And Paula Jones By Saying He Had Merely Made Clumsy Passes, Then Accepted Rejection, So There Was No Sexual Harassment Involved. As To His Dallying With An Emotionally Immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem Noted, 'welcome Sexual Behavior Is About As Relevant To Sexual Harassment As Borrowing A Car Is To Stealing One.' Surely What's Good For The Comeback Kid Is Good For The Terminator.

Even When Conservatives Have All The Marbles, They Still Act As If They're Under Siege. Now That They Are Under Siege, It Is No Time For Them To Act As If They're Losing Their Marbles.

And As Far As Doing God's Work, I Think The Bankers Who Took Government Money And Then Gave Out Obscene Bonuses Are The Same Self-interested Sorts Jesus Threw Out Of The Temple.

If Wit Is The Most Sophisticated Form Of Humor, Pranks Are The Most Juvenile.

Are Women Necessary? Not With Ava Around

The Insane Have Achieved Political Respectability While The Sane Act Too Good For It All. The Irrational Celebrate While The Rational Act Bored And Above-it-all.

Digital Platforms Are Worthless Without Content. They're Shiny Sacks With Bells And Whistles, But Without Content, They're Empty Sacks. It Is Not About Pixels Versus Print. It Is Not About How You're Reading. It Is About What You're Reading.

It Is An Astonishing Thing That Historians Will Look Back And Puzzle Over, That In The 21st Century, American Women Were Such Hunted Creatures. Even As Republicans Try To Wrestle Women Into Chastity Belts, The Vatican Is Trying To Muzzle American Nuns.

Yet It's True That Looks Matter In Politics... It Is Also True That Perfecting The Outer Shell Has Become An Obsession In This Country... Mitt Romney, Barack Obama And John Edwards Almost Always Look Good, And Pretty Much The Same, In Dark Suits Or Casual Wear. Fred Thompson Always Looks Crepuscular And Droopy. Often Hillary Clinton Looks Great, And Sometimes She Looks Tired, Heavier Or Puffier.