Eileen Pollack Quotes
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Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.
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Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.
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Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.
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Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!
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Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.
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When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.
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I don't usually feel threatened by the militias. Most members are just indulging their fantasies of being warriors without having to sign up for the Army. They want to be heroes and save their neighbors from disaster.
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Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it's real and not your fault, and it's something you can fight against.
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Wandering the book fair at AWP is a great way to get acquainted with a wide sampling of the diverse journals that are out there and the wide sampling of people who produce them.
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My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.
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If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.
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I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even though it's mostly women in the room, they're not often - or they didn't used to be the ones who went on to publish books. I know this sounds like a tautology, but encouragement is the key.
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I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.
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The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.
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If a person's self-worth derives from being the only woman in the field, how much affection can she feel toward another woman who might challenge that claim to fame?
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We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how they are born, and whether they remain immutable or evolve and die.
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As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.