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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants."
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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

"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 won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."

"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 guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."

"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."

"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."

"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."

"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 figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."

"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 must hate us."
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