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“Because when you’re a woman talking about your research, there are anywhere between one and a million STEMlords ready to exploit every little weakness—every little sign that you’re not a lean, mean science machine.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“STEM academia is 98 percent politics and 1 percent science (the rest, I suspect, “I Should Be Writing” memes).”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“My dreams of physics academia always entailed me as a full-time researcher, a blackboard, and long hours spent pondering the theories on the equatorial sections of Schwarzschild wormholes.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood