We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.