Debbie Macomber Quotes

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

I always thought I was going to end up teaching ninth grade, specifically, because I had a lot of really formative influences, I think, at that fork in the road, where a lot of crucial decisions are made by young folks.

I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.

I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.

I grew up in Bridlington until I was 16, and I lived with my mum and my sisters. I finished school, got my GCSE's, and at the time I didn't know what I wanted to do.