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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
"The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask."
"Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God."
"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."
"At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second."
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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."
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