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

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.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

People criticize a woman for everything - like, I get criticized for how my hair looks when I go grocery shopping or the fact that I don’t wear makeup when I get my nails done.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.