Ada Yonath Quotes

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work I do.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

I feel extremely fortunate that I can be a fighter pilot and not a female fighter pilot.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.