At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.

I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don't like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.

I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

The wand picks you, you don't pick the wand.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

First. get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.

Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

You need to know your faith. You cannot give what you do not have.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.