“The woman who has the courage to enter the laboratory and stand there in the face of the sneers of the men...has done more for the cause of woman's suffrage than all the eloquent speeches that were ever made.”— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
“We need more women in science. We need their perspectives, their ideas, and their passion.”— Eugenie Clark
“There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.”— Vera Rubin
“I live and work with three basic assumptions... we all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.”— Vera Rubin