Deborah Quotes

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

My children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at.

The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.

I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.

We are so many different people in one lifetime.

Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

People who feel positively think differently. They think better.

I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.

There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.

If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.

Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value.

We don't want to disqualify individuals who are selected partly because they bring that diverse experience to the court in cases where that experience is most likely to make a difference.

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.

Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

Art never lies, I believe.

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

You have to be willing to recognize failure.