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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
Explore more quotes by Louise Brown
"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."
"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."
"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."
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
"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."
"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 as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
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