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"My methods are really methods of working and
thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously."
Emmy Noether, 1931.
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"I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that
a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned
to abandon it merely because she marries."
Harriet Brooks , 1906.
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"It seems to me that marriage and motherhood are at least
as socially
important as military service."
Kathleen Lonsdale, 1970.
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"An error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman ha
more lives than a cat."
Hertha Marks Ayrton, 1912.
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"You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with
- in vain!"
Inge
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"As I was brought up almost entirely by women, it did not occur
to me that there was anything
strange in wanting to become a mathematician or physicist."
Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys.
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"There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to
a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!"
Chien Shiung Wu
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"It's really a lot of fun ..[doing physics].That's one reason to
reach out
to high school students. From what they get now, they'd never believe it
was so interesting!"
Helen Quinn
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