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.
My dream is to see every girl educated, in every country.
The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.
That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.
Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.
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