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

- Deborah Copaken

It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with…

- Deborah Copaken

Id always assumed that by 40 Id have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow in…

- Deborah Copaken

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

- Deborah Copaken

I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governm…

- Deborah Copaken

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

- Deborah Copaken

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

- Deborah Copaken

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

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 co…

- Deborah Copaken