Eileen Pollack

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

“If you're making love to a man of God, then God must endorse your lovemaking.”

— Eileen Pollack

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class,…

— Eileen Pollack

Many of my friends are scientists.

— Eileen Pollack

I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what…

— Eileen Pollack

Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves…

— Eileen Pollack

Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by…

— Eileen Pollack

When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did…

— Eileen Pollack

If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form…

— Eileen Pollack

I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even…

— Eileen Pollack

My brother had been given a chemistry set for his bar mitzvah, but he wasn't interested in it. It was upstairs in…

— Eileen Pollack

Given that many girls are indoctrinated to believe that they should be feminine and modest about their abilities, as well as brought…

— Eileen Pollack

To make computer science more attractive to women, we might help young women change how they think about themselves and what's expected…

— Eileen Pollack

If a person's self-worth derives from being the only woman in the field, how much affection can she feel toward another woman…

— Eileen Pollack

We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine…

— Eileen Pollack

Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it's real and not your fault, and it's something you…

— Eileen Pollack

All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date…

— Eileen Pollack

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as…

— Eileen Pollack

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

— Eileen Pollack

“You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.”

— Eileen Pollack

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

— Eileen Pollack

We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how…

— Eileen Pollack

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation…

— Eileen Pollack

If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of…

— Eileen Pollack

When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over…

— Eileen Pollack