The Only Woman in the Room Quotes

“I didn't stand up to my jailers because I realized how quickly I would have been overpowered.”
― Eileen Pollack, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club

“There is the me that thinks she is nearly perfect, and the me that thinks she is shit, the me that knows how to be happy, and the me that refuses to want to be happy at all.”
― Eileen Pollack, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club

“A man who cannot take care of himself can find a wife who will, but there are few absent-minded women professors—if a woman forgets to wash her clothes or cook her meals, no one else will.”
― Eileen Pollack, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club