If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.
Ellen GoodmanWe owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
Ellen GoodmanYou can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Ellen Goodman