“I have learned that raising a child is essentially one long, slow agony of letting go.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“People don't know to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Public and private organizations all over the world have studied the mechanics of sexism within science and have concluded that they are complex and multifactorial. In my own small experience, sexism has been something very simple: the cumulative weight of constantly being told that you can’t possibly be what you are.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“America says it loves science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“A seed is alive while it waits. Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it. Neither the seed nor the old oak is growing; they are both just waiting. Their waiting differs, however, in that the seed is waiting to flourish while the tree is only waiting to die.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
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