Quotes by Louise Brown

“If you cant return a favor, pass it on”

“I would say the number of women approaching us has more than doubled,”

“Most are middle-class women who are very successful, in areas like banking, the media, the law or running their own businesses - they tend to earn anything from £50,000 up to the millions. They are aged from late 20s to early 50s, and they are looking for a fun night out with no strings attached, because they simply do not have the time for a social life.”

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 target of a rape she becomes so despised, so shamed, so worthless that she turns into public property. No one is raped only once.

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.

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

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.