Louise Brown Quotes

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• Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
• Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I…
• Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors…
• The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the…
• The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already…
• I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
• I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I…
• Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
• I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
• Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of…
• When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much…
• If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
• The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
• It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure…
• The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
• Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.
• Reading is my greatest luxury.
• People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.
• I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
• I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it…

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