Pamela Dean Quotes

United States, Author
January 1, 1953

Pamela Collins Dean Dyer-Bennet (born 1953), better known as Pamela Dean, is an American fantasy author whose best-known book is Tam Lin, based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota.

Also known as Writer

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.

Pamela Dean
- Writing
- Day
- Thoughts
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.

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- Young
- First
- Very

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

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

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

Pamela Dean
- Weird
- Kid
- 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.

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- Men
- Want
- Player
Steph thinks you can wear makeup and still find Narnia.Well, so do I, but why make things harder?

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- Why
- Makeup