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.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
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