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This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: About Achieving Best Crazy Desiring Does Ever Feel Hopeless Makes Sexism You

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I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: Book First House Memoir Nbc Photographer Random Salary Sell Twice War Years

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I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: Always Assumed Career Could Entered Established Fullness Half Income Least Life Like My Life Pillow Second Sink Stability Steady Which

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Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: Age Born Came Dawn Get Gone Move Move On Over Over It Past Revolution Would I Came

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I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: Big Big Deal Deal Emmy Enough Eventually Get Long News No Big Deal Tv Work You

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I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: Clash Close Constant Danger Direct Displacement Excitement Experience Governments Happens Having History Intimate Knowledge Miss People Seeing Through Up

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When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: Adulthood Alive Believe Best Bring Children Daily Daily Lives Decision Down Having Lives Made Owe Present Stay Them Through Try Until World I Can I Believe I Believe That

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When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

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Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: Brain Environment Forces Interacting Muscles Out People Photography Right Those World

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I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

~Deborah Copaken Kogan

Topics: About Am Anxiety Around Bus Corner Crush Curb Giant Just Life Live Me Minute My Life Nothing Off Rational Refuse Step Waiting Worthy I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 11th, 1966

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