Quotes by Louise Brown

About Louise Brown:

Louise Joy Brown is an English woman known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
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a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that they’re not respectable. It’s worse for the victim because once a woman, or a girl—or a boy—is known as the ta...

Louise Brown

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 sh...

Louise Brown

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can rem...

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

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.

Louise Brown

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

Reading is my greatest luxury.

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

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.

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

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.

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Louise Brown

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Louise Brown

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

Louise Brown

Author Bio

  • NameLouise Brown
  • DescriptionFirst in-vitro baby
  • BornJuly 25, 1978
  • CountryUnited Kingdom