- Brother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Eileen Pollack Quotes
Most Famous Eileen Pollack Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best eileen-pollack quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Eileen Pollack Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Learning
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.
- Ahead
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Challenge
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.
- Encouragement
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.
- Feel
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date them. They won't be popular.' - don't apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Diversity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.
- Physics
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ale
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.
- Many
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Many of my friends are scientists.
- Place
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a complex place.
- Creative
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.
- Find
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.
- Hard
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.
- Parents
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math.
- Encouragement
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by staring at the ice cube beneath its feet.
- Being
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Light
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.
- America
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.
- Nerdy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.
- Die
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020