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Top 20 Deb Spera Quotes (2025 Update)

Deb Spera Quote: “When a woman marries and takes her husband’s name she is forever bound by his action and not her own.”

1. “When a woman marries and takes her husband’s name she is forever bound by his action and not her own.”

Deb Spera Quote: “The swamp is a beastly place. It’s ripe with things nobody wants to know.”

2. “The swamp is a beastly place. It’s ripe with things nobody wants to know.”

Deb Spera Quote: “If you reach a point in life where it feels there is only dark around you, that’s ’cause there is. You got to find the light. A hole can be a haven, but you can’t stay in a hole forever. What’s dark must come to light. Every person needs the sun.”

3. “If you reach a point in life where it feels there is only dark around you, that’s ’cause there is. You got to find the light. A hole can be a haven, but you can’t stay in a hole forever. What’s dark must come to light. Every person needs the sun.”

Deb Spera Quote: “If we don’t celebrate the small movements forward, we forget they existed at all.”

4. “If we don’t celebrate the small movements forward, we forget they existed at all.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Misery, like illness, is insidious, and my daughters have the virus. Some people need to blame others for their unhappiness. Parents are always easy targets.”

5. “Misery, like illness, is insidious, and my daughters have the virus. Some people need to blame others for their unhappiness. Parents are always easy targets.”

Deb Spera Quote: “What was, was, and what is, is.”

6. “What was, was, and what is, is.”

Deb Spera Quote: “It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head.”

7. “It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head.”

Deb Spera Quote: “My grandmother kept a place for runaway slaves under her cabin floor. It was dug out just big enough for three people to hide. When I was a little girl she showed me. Mama didn’t like that. Wanted me only to have memories of freedom. Said I was too young to be told such terrible things. “How she going to know how bad things can be in life if she don’t got nothing to compare it to?” Grandmother asked.”

8. “My grandmother kept a place for runaway slaves under her cabin floor. It was dug out just big enough for three people to hide. When I was a little girl she showed me. Mama didn’t like that. Wanted me only to have memories of freedom. Said I was too young to be told such terrible things. “How she going to know how bad things can be in life if she don’t got nothing to compare it to?” Grandmother asked.”

Deb Spera Quote: “It’s a powerful thing to need a friend when you can’t have her. There’s things that can only be shared among women, things menfolk want to fix but can’t, things too late for fixing.”

9. “It’s a powerful thing to need a friend when you can’t have her. There’s things that can only be shared among women, things menfolk want to fix but can’t, things too late for fixing.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Men can’t bear what women must. They jump to cry insanity as cause for a woman’s unhappiness; the utterance of the unutterable must be dementia.”

10. “Men can’t bear what women must. They jump to cry insanity as cause for a woman’s unhappiness; the utterance of the unutterable must be dementia.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over.”

11. “Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Mama would help me if she was alive. She would have been a light for my girls. She would’ve loved them the way she did me. They could have had something beautiful to remember like I do.”

12. “Mama would help me if she was alive. She would have been a light for my girls. She would’ve loved them the way she did me. They could have had something beautiful to remember like I do.”

Deb Spera Quote: “No. None of us get what we deserve. We make the best of what we got.”

13. “No. None of us get what we deserve. We make the best of what we got.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Your mama knew you ’fore you knew yourself. Mothers don’t leave. She’ll be back.”

14. “Your mama knew you ’fore you knew yourself. Mothers don’t leave. She’ll be back.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Everybody gets fed when Preacher’s around. He feeds our souls and we feed his belly.”

15. “Everybody gets fed when Preacher’s around. He feeds our souls and we feed his belly.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Experience in life can only be judged by the obstacles one has to overcome to get it.”

16. “Experience in life can only be judged by the obstacles one has to overcome to get it.”

Deb Spera Quote: “It don’t matter what she wants at this point. Other folks got a right to say what they need before she’s done on this earth.” “Maybe she don’t want to hear what they got to say.” “Don’t matter. Nobody come.” “Maybe nobody’s got anything to say,” Gertrude says. “Oh, they got plenty to say. Only everybody’s too damn scared to say it.”

17. “It don’t matter what she wants at this point. Other folks got a right to say what they need before she’s done on this earth.” “Maybe she don’t want to hear what they got to say.” “Don’t matter. Nobody come.” “Maybe nobody’s got anything to say,” Gertrude says. “Oh, they got plenty to say. Only everybody’s too damn scared to say it.”

Deb Spera Quote: “There is a time and place for memories, and old age is where they often come to reside. I used to gather them one after another, thinking, I won’t forget, I won’t forget. But it is the details that leave first and in their wake is only the one big moment. Maybe it’s a year or five years, maybe a day, some terrible day, but beyond that all the details fade. What’s left is a wave so big it smothers. Children are such a.”

18. “There is a time and place for memories, and old age is where they often come to reside. I used to gather them one after another, thinking, I won’t forget, I won’t forget. But it is the details that leave first and in their wake is only the one big moment. Maybe it’s a year or five years, maybe a day, some terrible day, but beyond that all the details fade. What’s left is a wave so big it smothers. Children are such a.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Polite make-believe is weary business, and there is no one better at this than Southerners.”

19. “Polite make-believe is weary business, and there is no one better at this than Southerners.”

Deb Spera Quote: “Even with her dying breath I told her she was going to be fine. I didn’t have the courage to tell her the truth. As mothers, don’t we owe our children the truth? I ought to have had more strength, but I didn’t. My girl looked at me with such fright. Maybe I could have calmed her with the idea of heaven, but I couldn’t let go.”

20. “Even with her dying breath I told her she was going to be fine. I didn’t have the courage to tell her the truth. As mothers, don’t we owe our children the truth? I ought to have had more strength, but I didn’t. My girl looked at me with such fright. Maybe I could have calmed her with the idea of heaven, but I couldn’t let go.”

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