Donna Strickland

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids…

— Donna Strickland

In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn't good at much of anything else. Some people are…

— Donna Strickland

If somebody else thinks something that you don't believe in, just think they're wrong and you're right and keep going. That's pretty…

— Donna Strickland

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in…

— Donna Strickland

Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home.…

— Donna Strickland

Because the high-intensity pulses are short, the laser only damages the area where it's applied. The result is precise, clean cuts that…

— Donna Strickland

For her PhD, Maria Goeppert Mayer, a theoretical physicist, came up with the idea of multi-photon physics. That means an atom absorbs…

— Donna Strickland

I still try to make different types of lasers that other people don't have.

— Donna Strickland

I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising…

— Donna Strickland

I think we've been pushing for a lot of years and I do feel like women's lib was talked about a lot…

— Donna Strickland

We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses…

— Donna Strickland

Sometimes you just have to be happy you get one chance in life and not worry too much about whether you get…

— Donna Strickland

Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it…

— Donna Strickland

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

— Donna Strickland

When I was a first-year in grad school, there were 18 of us in the Ph.D. program, and four of us were…

— Donna Strickland

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How…

— Donna Strickland

My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.

— Donna Strickland

We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.

— Donna Strickland

Marie Curie is in a class all her own as the first female winner and still the only person to win the…

— Donna Strickland

I was very good at math and physics. And that's all. I can't do music, art, so there was not a lot…

— Donna Strickland

I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I'm happy that life isn't like that. I'm glad there were trailblazers…

— Donna Strickland

I've always been treated as an equal.

— Donna Strickland

I got paid the same as my male counterpart grad students and onward.

— Donna Strickland

I mean, so hopefully soon there's enough women and enough people of colour and enough of every group out there that feels…

— Donna Strickland

I feel unbelievably honored to be, you know, with Marie Curie and Goeppert Mayer. It's like, how can I be in the…

— Donna Strickland