What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
Elizabeth MoonHaving a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Elizabeth MoonMy first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
Elizabeth MoonSo when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
Elizabeth Moon