Deborah Copaken Quotes

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

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

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

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

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!

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