Jill Abramson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.
-- Jill Abramson

#Next #Boat
I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.
-- Jill Abramson

#Thinking #Wells
I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
-- Jill Abramson

#Mother #Sound #Older Sister
Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.
-- Jill Abramson

#Voice #Want #Authority
I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.
-- Jill Abramson

#Thinking #Tough #Standards
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.
-- Jill Abramson

#Ideas #Different #Stories
The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.
-- Jill Abramson

#Powerful #News #Opinion
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.
-- Jill Abramson

#Children #Stories #Sensitive
It's a little dangerous to be a badass.
-- Jill Abramson

#Badass #Littles #Dangerous
I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
-- Jill Abramson

#Voice #Immediacy
People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
-- Jill Abramson

#Dog #New York #Growing Up
As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
-- Jill Abramson

#Frustration #Past #Careers
I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.
-- Jill Abramson

#Serendipity #Pieces #Pages
You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of,
-- Jill Abramson

#Want #Losing #Made
If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.
-- Jill Abramson

#Said #Absolute Truth
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.
-- Jill Abramson

#White #Numbers #House
You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.
-- Jill Abramson

#Dog #Thinking #Bad Mood
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
-- Jill Abramson

#Dog #Encouragement #Criticism
Women are damn resilient.
-- Jill Abramson

#Empowering #Empowering Women #Resilient
We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant,
-- Jill Abramson

#Realizing #Resilient #Humans
Over the years, Iâ€™ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.
-- Jill Abramson

#Mother #Years #Wife
When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.
-- Jill Abramson

#Technology #Phones #Firsts

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