Deborah Quotes

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.