Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Real Women are Covered to be Discovered in due time

My message is that God is a good God.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

Casual to me implies a lack of care or thought.

If my Catholic boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that Mommy is one of God's chosen people, and Daddy believes that Jesus is magic!