The Other Einstein Quotes

“Her quietude was not weakness; it was an ardent watchfulness that would be replaced by a roar when required.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“while the first step is the hardest, the second isn’t much easier.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“This moment in time, shimmering and blissful, was hard to relinquish.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling. These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Mitza, you are like the objects in one of Newton’s investigations. You tirelessly maintain your velocity through life unless you are acted upon by an outside force. I hope no outside force ever changes your velocity.” Papa”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“You and I are not so different except in the choices we’ve made. And remind yourself that a new choice is always possible.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger. •”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Mama had indeed risen up with a ferocity I didn’t think she possessed. I’d been wrong about her my whole life. Her quietude was not weakness; it was an ardent watchfulness that would be replaced by a roar when required.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“The world of physics was where I belonged. Embedded in its secretive rules about the workings of the world—hidden forces and unseen causal relationships so complex that I believed only God could have created them—were answers to the greatest questions about our existence. If only I could uncover them.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling. These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Together, we will become the ideal bohemian couple—equal in love and work.” “Truly?”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Do you remember the first time you realized that you were different from other girls? Smarter perhaps?” Helene asked. I”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“I thought I’d always be the only eastern European female university student in a world of western men. Maybe the only girl at all. Mrs.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“the Swiss looked down upon those from the eastern reaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And yet the Swiss were the most tolerant people in other ways; they had the most lenient university admissions for women, for example. It was a confusing contradiction. Signaling”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“in trying to be strong and not let a man swerve me from my path, I’d actually let a man dictate my course. I”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“The burden of loss and the weight of daily minutiae had aged her.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“At worst, I had suffered meanness and degradation at the hands of my classmates, male and female, especially when they realized the scope of my ambitions.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“That girl seemed so innocent, standing on the brink of limitless possibility, mercifully unaware that she would have to morph herself and sacrifice her ambitions to preserve in the world.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“I couldn’t even fathom what he saw in the vapid, uneducated matron.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Me, a dark shadow cast behind Albert’s light, they utterly ignored.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“What did you think, Helene?” he asked. Incredibly, even after all the flattery, he sought more. From everyone but me.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Astonishing how quickly he could revert to his charming public personality after just yelling at me to walk behind him, not at his side. He found me embarrassing these days.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“You are like the objects in one of Newton’s investigations. You tirelessly maintain your velocity through life unless you are acted upon by an outside force. I hope no outside force ever changes your velocity.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Science certainly needs practical men, but science also needs dreamers. It seems to me that your husband is one of those dreamers. And dreamers often need caretakers, don’t they?”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“A life of housework and the blank eyes of other housewives, women who found us odd and too academic for their household cares. I”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

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― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“Her story was, in many ways, the story of many intelligent, educated women whose own aspirations were marginalized in favor of their spouses.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“I constantly astonished myself with these girls. Astonished that I had the words to express my long-buried stories. Astonished that I allowed them to see who I really was. And astonished that I was accepted regardless.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“These friends didn’t take away my resolve to succeed as I’d feared. They made me stronger.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein