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Pamela Dean Quotes

American - Author | 1953 -

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

Me Weird Gender Kid Fit Roles

I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

Men Baseball Want Open Anything

I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

Support Think Always Examination Did

Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'

Green Early Earth Person Hills Whom

I first read Heinlein when I was very young.

Young First Read Very

Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

Day Me Thoughts Writing You First

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