All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

I don't even hate books anymore.

Gone, but not forgotten.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

I took his suggestion to heart and went from a "know-it-all" to a "learn-it-all."