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" For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable. "
Eileen Pollack
She
Enough
Even
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" We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how they are born, and whether they remain immutable or evolve and die. "
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Die
Born
" Wandering the book fair at AWP is a great way to get acquainted with a wide sampling of the diverse journals that are out there and the wide sampling of people who produce them. "
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Great
Book
Fair
" When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl. "
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Learning
Science
Mind
" My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams. "
Eileen Pollack
Parents
Dreams
Encouragement
" When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist. "
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Growing
Wanted
Up
" I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing. "
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Improve
Writing
Teachers
" Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple. "
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Questions
Ground
Common Ground
" When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away. "
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Left
Me
Hard
" We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math. "
Eileen Pollack
Own
Good
Value
" I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even though it's mostly women in the room, they're not often - or they didn't used to be the ones who went on to publish books. I know this sounds like a tautology, but encouragement is the key. "
Eileen Pollack
Think
Women
Writing
" If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving. "
Eileen Pollack
You
Society
Science
" If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there. "
Eileen Pollack
Room
Feel
Going
" Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off. "
Eileen Pollack
People
Choose
Live
" Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy. "
Eileen Pollack
Want
Parents
Kids
" In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it. "
Eileen Pollack
Nobody
Boyfriend
America
" Many of my friends are scientists. "
Eileen Pollack
Scientists
Friends
Many
" Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics. "
Eileen Pollack
Culture
Cool
Success
" Given that many girls are indoctrinated to believe that they should be feminine and modest about their abilities, as well as brought up to assume that girls are not innately gifted at science or math, it is not surprising that so few can see themselves as successful computer scientists. "
Eileen Pollack
Well
Successful
See
" Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by staring at the ice cube beneath its feet. "
Eileen Pollack
Walking
Judging
Feet
" I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter. "
Eileen Pollack
Creative
Reporter
Teach
" The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on. "
Eileen Pollack
Science
Most
Woman
" All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date them. They won't be popular.' - don't apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged. "
Eileen Pollack
Will
Date
Feel
" I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions. "
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Class
More
Physics
" If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating. "
Eileen Pollack
Your
Stereotype
Good
" Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job. "
Eileen Pollack
Job
Knowing
Someone
" As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors. "
Eileen Pollack
1970s
Physics
Yale
" I don't usually feel threatened by the militias. Most members are just indulging their fantasies of being warriors without having to sign up for the Army. They want to be heroes and save their neighbors from disaster. "
Eileen Pollack
Feel
Neighbors
Heroes
" When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead. "
Eileen Pollack
Community
Science
Go
" Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun! "
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Hard Work
Fun
Science
" When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses. "
Eileen Pollack
High School
Parents
School