Rosalyn Sussman Yalow There’s lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn’t make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I’m not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Everything’s a real passion to me – my children, my family, my work, travel. I don’t play tennis, I don’t play music, but I have a great time. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you’re right. And if you’re really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow They told me that, as a woman, I’d never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 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. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow