Lauren

“Imbalance in the sciences is at least partly because women face a web of pressures throughout their lives, which men often don’t face.”
― Angela Saini, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

“People with schizophrenia in the United States were better off in the 1970s than they are now.”
― Susannah Cahalan, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

“Study after study has shown almost all behavioral and psychological differences between the sexes to be small or nonexistent. Cambridge University psychologist Melissa Hines and others have repeatedly demonstrated that boys and girls have little, if any, noticeable gaps between them when it comes to fine motor skills, spatial visualization, mathematics ability, and verbal fluency.”
― Angela Saini, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

“I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties