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" Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning. "
Hope Jahren
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" You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank. "
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" In my Scandinavian-American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down. "
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" The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes. "
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Science
Women
Justice
" Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics. "
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Rest
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" 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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Tiny
Father
He
" For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months. "
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Tree
You
Endure
" I love rocks with the unconditional love that you lavish upon a newborn baby. "
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Newborn
Baby
You
" Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft. "
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Slide
Girl
Even
" As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will. "
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Life
Environmental
Need
" 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. "
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Opportunity
Plants
Think
" My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses. "
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Me
Experiences
Then
" What is a berry? It is an ovary swaddled within a sugary womb. Plainly put, a berry is the fruition of a flower - the ultimate tautology. "
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Within
Ultimate
Fruition
" My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe. "
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I Believe
Church
Believe
" 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. "
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Turn
Risk
Safety
" I grew up in a small town. "
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Small Town
Up
Town
" If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world. "
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Living
Plant
Different
" The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it. "
Hope Jahren
Time
Tree
World
" It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects. "
Hope Jahren
Fix
Trust
Hands
" 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. "
Hope Jahren
Men
Women
Believe
" I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it. "
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Think
You
Society
" America may say that it values science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it. "
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Science
Values
Say
" Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out. "
Hope Jahren
Ground
Plants
Project
" 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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You
" I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living. "
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Questions
Plants
I Am
" One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown. "
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Time
Thanksgiving
I Am
" Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say that, but that's what I've seen from doing science for a couple of decades. "
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Say
Doing
Women
" We must continue as in millennia past, nourishing the future as we feed ourselves and, each year, plant only the very best of what we have collectively engineered. "
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Year
Best
Future
" I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society. "
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Men
Women
Power
" 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. "
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Think
Night
Day
" I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they have very fine tastes according to art or design. And often, they've spent a big chunk of their childhood or they're growing-up years trying to get in very good at those activities. "
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Art
People