In the words of Time magazine, Ellen
Goodman has firmly established herself
as "a cool stream of sanity flowing
through a minefield of public and private
quandaries."
Sensible, funny, intelligent--unique
in her ability to connect our personal
lives to public issues--she continues to
write about those things that really mat-
ter to us: our children and our families,
our relationships, and the quality of our
life, now and in the future.
On kids: "1 suppose we make kids the
repository of our highest ideals because
children are powerless. In that way we
can have ideals and ignore them at the
same time." On our truubled times: "There
are people who say It would be nice to be
humane, but we have to be realistic. But
surely it s possible, even in this peak sea-
son of pessimism, to devise new ways to
be both." On work and family: "Our work
and our children aren t worlds that
oppose each other across a great
Despite. We need to choose the con-
junctions that join, rather than divide,
our lives."
In At Large we are treated to Ellen
Goodman s lucid observations on every-
thing from nuclear power reactors to the
stress on the modern woman and the
question of abortion, to the Arabs, the
economic outlook, sex education, and
divorce. Her profiles are superb: Pablo
Picasso ("For ninety-one years, he did
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