Top 49 Debora Quotes
#1. Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package
- Debora Geary
Debora Geary
#2. Anyone who is a sinner in the human race ... is a candidate for salvation.
Debora Hooper
#3. For the rest of her life, hope was going to smell a little bit like bacon.
Debora Geary
#4. I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.
Debora Spar
#5. We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.
Debora Spar
#6. Uncle Marcus was going to help with training? Elorie looked around for flying pigs.
Debora Geary
#7. Sometimes, the hardest thing of all is being tossed on the winds.
Debora Geary
#9. I wanted a bath, even if it were dust. A strigil to scrape the skin that I couldn't crawl out of.
Debora Greger
#10. As a result, ostensibly liberated women often found themselves struggling with three full-time jobs: working inside the home, working outside the home, and trying to be thin.
Debora L. Spar
#11. To be a minister of the Word in any capacity, one MUST experience a call.
Debora Hooper
#12. Words have power. And when you put them out there, it makes them real for other people, and maybe it changes the world a little." He shrugged. "Or maybe it changes you."
Debora Geary
#13. It's oppressive ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines don't seem to do this. They seem to be about things that are fun, not things you have to spend lots of hours on and then fail at.
Debora Spar
#14. To walk at the side of an amazing woman is a journey all its own,
Debora Geary
#15. Only two bags, huh?" Helga was eighty, feisty, and the fastest knitter Elsie had ever seen. "We'll have to work on that. It's not a respectable stash until it has its own room.
Debora Geary
#16. Clearly i Bible times, women were used in ministry leadership roles, and still are today.
Debora Hooper
#17. 'Maybe' is what gets us into trouble, because I think constantly women are saying I'll try to do it, maybe I'll do it, I'll do it if I can, and then they're feeling guilty when inevitably they can't do everything.
Debora Spar
#18. Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.
Debora Spar
#19. I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be more willing to say I'm really excited about this part of my life, but I'm screwing up over here, or this is a mistake I've made, or this is something I've given up on.
Debora Spar
#20. I'm pretty good at most things where immaturity is an asset.
Debora Geary
#22. If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.
Debora Spar
#23. I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.
Debora Spar
#24. Winter comes to balance the warm glow of summer and to teach us to cherish it. A few minutes outside in the cold helps me to remember that.
Debora Geary
#26. Honestly...this is why I write.
I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.
I write for my sanity.
Debora Dennis
#27. It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.
Debora Spar
#28. Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.
Debora Spar
#29. I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to create a new set of expectations, a new set of opportunities for women, and they did.
Debora Spar
#30. Roses are red, violets are blue,
This room's a psycho shopping zoo.
The fashion's a disaster, the mirrors are large,
And somebody left a crazy lady with needles in charge.
Debora Geary
#31. Vero collapsed in a chair, overtaken with delicious giggles. The child had bought underwear to match a plastic frog. An act of perfect silliness.
Debora Geary
#32. I was in a book group in 1973," she recounted. "We read The Feminine Mystique one week, and the next week everyone went out and got a job. The book group never met again.
Debora L. Spar
#33. Magic would always have a place in the world as long as those hints of reverence continued to exist.
Debora Geary
#34. The greatest impediment to women's liberation is dumb commercials.
Debora Geary
#35. I believe that if you feel you are in love, you are in love. By
Debora Phillips
#36. "I'm pretty sure if it weren't for you, I'd have spent the rest of my life terrified of crowded places. I can't thank you enough.
Debora Geary
#37. If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook dinner; somebody does have to do garbage duty. We need to take some time and give some thought, without being angry, to just thinking about what these new structures are going to look like.
Debora Spar
#38. Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!
Debora Spar
#39. We must ... forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.
Debora Spar
#40. Sometimes truth was the most brutal weapon of all. And the greatest gift.
Debora Geary
#41. I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.
Debora Spar
#42. The point is to learn to live with roots inside yourself, instead of a thousand stupid rules to guide your day. Who are you without your rules, Elsie? Who would you find if you had the guts to just lie still and let go?
Debora Geary
#43. Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.
Debora Spar
#44. They never used three words where one would do.
Debora Geary
#45. I rode Caro's bike down a hill with no hands, and then I went sock shopping because I was sad to say goodbye to Alfred, and the socks were cute, but there was this purple lace bra." She ground to a halt, cheeks steaming. "It was the same color as Alfred.
Debora Geary
#46. The desert lay in wait, more infinite than God, no less remote.
Debora Greger
#47. It's like parenting. The hardest, most intensive time comes at the very beginning. We still love those babies as they grow into daredevil children, recalcitrant teens, and parents setting eyes on their own babes for the first time. We just get a little more sleep while we do it.
Debora Geary
#48. Speed made things happen faster than her brain could process them.
Debora Geary
#49. They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.
Debora Spar
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