Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

it’s that women can’t get the education they need to do what they’re meant to do.

Which means they won’t be offered the same opportunities nor afforded the same respect.

“One thing I’ve learned, Calvin: people will always yearn for a simple solution to their complicated problems. It’s a lot easier to have faith in something you can’t see, can’t touch, can’t explain, and can’t change, rather than to have faith in something you actually can.” She sighed. “One’s self, I mean.” She tensed her stomach.

Everyone needed help.

For a second time, he’d saved the person he loved the most, and the best part was, she didn’t know.