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.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
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