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The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.


Deborah Eisenberg

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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 Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independ...
DEBORAH TANNEN Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's...
DEBORAH SAMPSON The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you
DEBORAH WILES There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ...
DEBORAH HARKNESS What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragi...
DEBORAH SAMPSON I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl...
DEBORAH ELLIS When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a...
DEBORAH ELLIS This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremen...
DEBORAH TANNEN Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious...
DEBORAH TANNEN When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothe...
DEBORAH TANNEN Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears.
DEBORAH BRODIE Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be...
DEBORAH BRODIE What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends.
DEBORAH BRODIE Count the cost of everything.
Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourse...
DEBORAH BRODIE Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat.
DEBORAH BRODIE It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t...
DEBORAH COX The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the ...
DEBORAH TANNEN There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,...
DEBORAH MAILMAN American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mo...
DEBORAH TANNEN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s...
DEBORAH KASS I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more ex...
DEBORAH COX The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.
DEBORAH TANNEN In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversatio...
DEBORAH TANNEN The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy ...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see.
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for t...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagn...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.
DEBORAH ABBOTT The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's ec...
DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel.
DEBORAH ABBOTT