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SET Women - Leicestershire Women in Science Engineering & Technology

e-Book - Quotes

"I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women."
Ruth Benedict, anthropologist

"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, physicist

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Marie Curie, physical chemist

"The most effective way to do it is to do it."
Amelia Earhart, pilot

"We especially need imagination in science."
Maria Mitchell, astronomer

"Outcasts and girls with ambition, that's what I want to see!"
Pink, singer/songwriter

"If you meet the expectations of women, you exceed the expectations of men."
Volvo's Your Concept Car Project

"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, physicist