Jill Abramson quotes:

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 wasn't necessarily intending to read.

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.

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

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.

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

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 like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.

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

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

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.

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

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.'

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.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

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

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant,

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

I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

I don't pretend I know everything.

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.

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

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

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

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

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

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.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of,

If The Times said it, it was the 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.

Women are damn resilient.

Over the years, I'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.

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.