Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.