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For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

~Eileen Pollack

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Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Kids Nerdy Parents Want

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We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how they are born, and whether they remain immutable or evolve and die.

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Born Die Distant Evolve Figured Forget How Made Makes Out Recently Remain Shine Stars Them Whether

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If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Course Drop Encouraged Female Get He Her Later Life Male Need Physics Questions Since Stay Student Tries Wants Will

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When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Approaching Creative Design Different Different Kinds Get Innovation Kinds Leads Mathematical Minds More Problems Scientific Solutions Will You

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Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.

~Eileen Pollack

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My brother had been given a chemistry set for his bar mitzvah, but he wasn't interested in it. It was upstairs in the attic, and I would sneak up there and use it at great peril because I was afraid if he found out, he would get very angry at me, but he didn't seem to care.

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Afraid Angry Attic Bar Bar Mitzvah Because Been Brother Care Chemistry Found Get Given Great Had He His Interested Me Mitzvah Out Peril Seem Set Sneak Up Upstairs Use Very Would

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When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.

~Eileen Pollack

Topics: Advanced Allowed Because Bored Boy Class Classes Girl Grade Learning Math Mind Move Out Over Same Same Things Science Seemed Seventh Things Two Were Ahead

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Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it's real and not your fault, and it's something you can fight against.

~Eileen Pollack

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Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

~Eileen Pollack

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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