“Do you remember the first time you realized that you were different from other girls? Smarter perhaps?” Helene asked. I” — Marie Benedict First time Copy Share Image
“David Mitchell, Lily King, Ann Patchett, and Lev Grossman. New” — Marie Benedict Lily Copy Share Image
“Together, we will become the ideal bohemian couple—equal in love and work.” “Truly?” — Marie Benedict Couple Copy Share Image
“Like a spider, Albert became busy building a name for himself in the center of the intricate web of European physicists.” — Marie Benedict Albert Copy Share Image
“These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •” — Marie Benedict Friendship Copy Share Image
“I reviewed some of his articles and knew Albert couldn’t manage all those mathematical calculations on his own. You were always better… — Marie Benedict Albert Copy Share Image
“Mitza, you are like the objects in one of Newton’s investigations. You tirelessly maintain your velocity through life unless you are acted… — Marie Benedict Newton Copy Share Image
“The Polytechnic was a new sort of college dedicated to producing teachers and professors for various math or scientific disciplines, and it… — Marie Benedict Polytechnic Copy Share Image
“Remember my words, Mileva, when you withdraw into the deadening cycle of home. You and I are not so different except in… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“Mama had indeed risen up with a ferocity I didn’t think she possessed. I’d been wrong about her my whole life. Her… — Marie Benedict Life Copy Share Image
“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of… — Marie Benedict Friend Copy Share Image
“constantly astonished myself with these girls. Astonished that I had the words to express my long-buried stories. Astonished that I allowed them… — Marie Benedict Astonished Accepted Copy Share Image
“I knew that they needed to jettison the goal of finding a law of physics applicable to all observers in the universe… — Marie Benedict Dance Copy Share Image
“Won’t he ask who this other author is? This Miss Marić?” Albert was quiet. “Would you mind if I listed only my… — Marie Benedict Books Copy Share Image
“Even if no one ever learned of my role in the creation of the relativity theory, I felt a certain sense of… — Marie Benedict Peace Copy Share Image
“I had been right to return our relationship to the language of science; love followed in science’s footsteps with Albert. My” — Marie Benedict Love Copy Share Image
“I thought I’d always be the only eastern European female university student in a world of western men. Maybe the only girl… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
“If Albert’s mother thinks we would permit our beautiful Serbian daughter to marry her rapscallion son, she is sorely mistaken,” — Marie Benedict Children Copy Share Image
“did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule… — Marie Benedict Friendship Copy Share Image
“Was Mileva simply a sounding board for his brainstorms, as some scientists insisted? Did she only assist him with the complicated mathematical… — Marie Benedict Mathematics Copy Share Image
“I missed Helene terribly. The camaraderie, the keen understanding we shared, the empathy and total acceptance was found nowhere else in my… — Marie Benedict Learning Copy Share Image
“the Swiss looked down upon those from the eastern reaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And yet the Swiss were the most tolerant… — Marie Benedict Tolerant People Copy Share Image
