Desire Quote by Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that…

— Jane Goodall

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science,…

— Vera Rubin

I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think…

— Hope Jahren

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune…

— Hope Jahren

The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in…

— Ellen Key

If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as…

— Christine de Pizan

It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true:…

— Weili Dai

We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

— May-Britt Moser

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

— Eileen Pollack

Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male…

— Alison Gopnik

“Personally I do not agree with sex being brought into science at all. The idea of 'women and science' is entirely irrelevant. Either a…

— Hertha Ayrton