Desperate Quote by Shannon Lucid

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

— Donna Strickland

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

There were eight women in my graduating class.

— Judith Love Cohen

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

— Jennifer Weiner

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 went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

— Lupita Nyong'o

My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate school, completely co-ed, in 1945. My mother…

— Phyllis Schlafly

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to…

— Donald Cram

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

— Ayelet Waldman

I hope college women reject you less than college admissions officers.

— Anonymous

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women…

— Madeleine Albright

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

— Daniel Tosh