Elizabeth

“There was an irony in Vogt’s invitation to Sears. While she was an undisputed authority on plankton, she had managed to achieve this status without ever once going on an overnight seafaring expedition. At Woods Hole in Massachusetts, where Sears had trained as one of the first ten research fellows at the institution and had been a member of the staff ever since, women were not allowed to sail on the institution’s research vessel Atlantis.”
― Catherine Musemeche, Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II – A Groundbreaking Biography of Oceanographic Intelligence

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi