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"I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries."

Harriet Brooks , 1906.

"It seems to me that marriage and motherhood are at least as socially important as military service."
Kathleen Lonsdale, 1970.

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"As I was brought up almost entirely by women, it did not occur to me that there was anything strange in wanting to become a mathematician or physicist."

"There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!"

"You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with - in vain!"

"An error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat."
Reference

"My methods are really methods of working and thinking;
this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously."

Letter to Helmut Hasse, 1931.
[en1981ad]

"It's really a lot of fun ..[doing physics].That's one reason to reach out to high school students. From what they get now, they'd never believe it was so interesting!"

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	"I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries." Harriet Brooks , 1906.
	"It seems to me that marriage and motherhood are at least as socially important as military service." Kathleen Lonsdale, 1970. Full text
	"As I was brought up almost entirely by women, it did not occur to me that there was anything strange in wanting to become a mathematician or physicist."
	"There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!"
	"You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with - in vain!"
	"An error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat." Reference
	"My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously." Letter to Helmut Hasse, 1931. [en1981ad]
	"It's really a lot of fun ..[doing physics].That's one reason to reach out to high school students. From what they get now, they'd never believe it was so interesting!"