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" I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people - and not just other scientists - about my life in science. "

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" I love rocks with the unconditional love that you lavish upon a newborn baby. "

" My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many! "

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" A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits. "

" My father was a scientist, and I grew up in his laboratory. Maybe I am like him, but he is not like me. "

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" I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job. "

" Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly. "

" Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's this constant balancing act that we do. "

" I was a promising graduate student. I landed a position as a professor before I even started to write my dissertation. While I prepared to start my new job, I decided that I would begin by studying the brine that bleeds sideways within the rocks that underlie the inner Aegean region of Turkey. "

" Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate. "

" Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us. "

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" I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them. "

" I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several hours of the night as well. "

" Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands. "

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" Regardless of what humans do to the climate, there will still be a rock orbiting the sun. "

" I can explain to you in detail just how a tree can be made into paper. But I've always wondered - and hoped - that someday, someone would help me discover how paper can be made back into a tree. "

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You

" We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good at delivering justice. "

" I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living. "

" Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won't take long. She'll look you in the eye and say one word: 'Money.' "

" I feel like I'm the same scientist I was back when I couldn't get a grant. Now I'm that same person thinking that same way getting grants. That system of external rewards in science has always mystified me. It's fickle. And I also don't think it was constructed with people like me in mind. "

" There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not. "

" For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months. "

" One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that that's where I belonged, and I could fix things and move things. And no matter how many classrooms I went into where I was the only girl in the physics class or whatever, I never questioned the fact that I didn't belong there. "

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" If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world. "

" I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves. "

" Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning. "

" In our tiny town, my father wasn't a scientist - he was the scientist, and being a scientist wasn't his job: it was his identity. "

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" Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs. "

" My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe. "

" My father's schooling during the 1930s was heavy with memorization; eight decades later, he is reaping the benefits. "