45 Quotes by Eileen Pollack

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.

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.

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.

The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.

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.

As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.

Many of my friends are scientists.

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.

The world is a complex place.