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"I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby."
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"I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower."
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"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."
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"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 at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."
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"We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma."
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"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter."
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"Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?"
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"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers."
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"It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay."
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"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
Want

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

"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
Fear

"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 at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."
Baby

"I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating."
Books

"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."
People

"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
World

"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."
Fiction

"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."
Woman

"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."
Woman
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