Quotes from Jill Abramson

My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women who are good at that is unbridled. Women in general have a harder time talking about money with their bosses.

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.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

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.

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant.

I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.'