Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
Sam Harris
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
Hank Aaron
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
Nancy Greene
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
Imelda May
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
Natalie Massenet
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
Gail Carson Levine
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Ida B. Wells
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Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
Cara Delevingne
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If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.
Kate Hudson
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicolson
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Women have no government.
Victoria Woodhull
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'I want to say it again, and again, and again: Islam is not a religion, it's a political system meant on - bent on world domination, not a religion. It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world into their way of thinking.' 10
Pat Robertson
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The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.
Warren Farrell
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I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
Lucy Stone
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There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.
Phil Niekro
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In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.
Charles Palliser
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Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
Dee Dee Myers
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I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.
Nan Goldin
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
Alan Arkin
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Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.
C. S. Lewis
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I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
Willem de Kooning
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Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
