Women in Academia Quotes

In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.

In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all Ph.D.s from the best universities of the world. And guess what? They're all women.

The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

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

There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan.

I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty. The government was putting pressure on universities to hire more women.