"I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into."
"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."
"I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that."
"Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'"
"I first read Heinlein when I was very young."
"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."
