I Can't Pick Out One Single Book

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.

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.

I Could Write An Entertaining Novel About Rejection Slips, But I Fear It Would Be Overly Long.

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.