I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.


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There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
DEBORAH NORVILLE
'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE
When my mother passed away I was 20.
DEBORAH NORVILLE
I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
DEBORAH NORVILLE
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious...
DEBORAH NORVILLE
So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
DEBORAH NORVILLE
It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
DEBORAH NORVILLE
Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.
DEBORAH NORVILLE
Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You...
DEBORAH MAILMAN
A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like...
DEBORAH TANNEN
The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug...
DEBORAH EISENBERG
My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb...
DEBORAH MAILMAN
Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with ...
DEBORAH TANNEN
In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give con...
DEBORAH TANNEN
For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in an...
DEBORAH TANNEN
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo...
DEBORAH COX
I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d...
DEBORAH COX
I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno...
DEBORAH MAILMAN
Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce...
DEBORAH WILES
God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.
DEBORAH RANEY
Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain...
DEBORAH REBER
Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.
DEBORAH DAY
If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.
DEBORAH DAY
True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th...
DEBORAH BARNES
The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th...
DEBORAH MOGGACH
The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i...
DEBORAH MAILMAN
The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i...
DEBORAH MAILMAN
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and...
DEBORAH MOGGACH
An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the l...
DEBORAH TANNEN
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because...
DEBORAH TANNEN
For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apol...
DEBORAH TANNEN
If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be a...
DEBORAH TANNEN
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80...
DEBORAH BULL
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,...
DEBORAH KASS
I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.
DEBORAH NORVILLE
My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early...
DEBORAH TANNEN
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when...
DEBORAH COX