The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.

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

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

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.

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

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