Famous Female Mathematician Quotes

#1. I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Nadine Gordimer

#2. It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.

Rod Duncan

#3. I privately say to you, old friend ... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

J.D. Salinger

#4. Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

Paul Robeson

#5. But the world has taken lust and disguised it as love. They've taken sex and disguised it as intimacy. They've taken commitment and disguised it as a prison. They've twisted everything until it's all inside out, and then we wonder why everyone is so confused about relationships.

Becky Doughty

#6. I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

Akira Kurosawa

#7. Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

Amity Shlaes