Louise Brown Quotes

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

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

I'm playing catch with Nisha and Nena. They're standing against the opposite wall shrieking with enjoyment. They're teenagers, but they've never played catch before and lack any sense of coordination; when they throw the ball to me it flies in any direction. Sometimes it hits the wall behind them. We've been playing for half an hour and they have only caught it twice.

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.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its feet, on the charpoy that is reserved for those who die without money or family to bury them. He looked desiccated and his skin had the sheen and color of the dates we eat to break our fast. There are new bodies on that charpoy every week.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

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 it would ever have found its way into print.

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

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

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.

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.

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

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.

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

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.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.