"For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences."
-Sally Ride
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"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.“
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"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."
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"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
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"So I decided on science when I was in college."
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"I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science."
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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."
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