Deborah Read

Deborah Read

Deborah Read Franklin (February 14, 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the spouse of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and a prominent inventor, printer, thinker, and revolutionary.

Read more about Deborah Read:  Life Before Second Marriage, Marriage To Benjamin Franklin, Later Life, Death

Famous quotes containing the words deborah and/or read:

    Q: What would have made a family and career easier for you?
    A: Being born a man.
    Anonymous Mother, U.S. physician and mother of four. As quoted in Women and the Work Family Dilemma, by Deborah J. Swiss and Judith P. Walker, ch. 2 (1993)

    A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
    Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)