Bigs Quote by Linda Wertheimer

I actually felt like college was a much better and more comfortable environment for me than high school was. I think that can largely…

— Julie Zeilinger

Being a woman has helped my career more than it's hindered it.

— Mildred Dresselhaus

After graduation, I discovered that I'd hit the limit of what I could learn from the women in my family. On top of that,…

— Caroline Ghosn

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college…

— Hanna Rosin

I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.

— Yolanda Hadid

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had…

— Madeleine Albright

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten…

— Madeleine Albright

I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty. The government…

— Carol S. Dweck

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial…

— Kay Granger

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the…

— Claire McCaskill

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill…

— Dennis Prager

Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where…

— Michelle Obama