I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of encouraging young women to pursue careers, especially in science.
In this quote, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow expresses her commitment to inspiring young women to consider careers beyond traditional roles, highlighting the need for representation of women in the science field. By underlining her duty to speak on this topic, Yalow emphasizes the significance of mentorship and advocacy in empowering the next generation to break barriers and pursue their passions in STEM disciplines.
In practice
A speaker at a high school career day could use this quote to inspire students.
The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.
They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.
....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.
Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.
I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional or managerial role.
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel, really.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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