Frances Arnold Quotes
I took mechanical drawing, geometry and typing at high school, the latter because that is what they did with smart girls in those days!
Arnold, Frances H. "Frances H. Arnold - Biographical." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Media AB, 2018.
This was one of the first higher educational opportunities for women in England. Note how they felt they had to justify higher education for women.
An “asp” was the term Greeks and Romans used for a poisonous snake. Menander was a very popular playwright 300 years before the birth of Christ. His phrase was not a new idea at the time but, common wisdom” among Greeks—including many women who were controlled by the social values of the day that were very sexist. However, when Menander wrote it, it received mass distribution in that plays were the major form of mass media and entertainment at the time. So this conventional wisdom was common as Rome became the superpower and whose culture dominated including the Greek plays. Note that this attitude did not reflect the point of view that women were not important enough to educate to write. To the contrary, the implication is that women were too potentially dangerous to allow them to learn to write. Upper class women however were expected to read, but men were not only taught to write but to do so persuasively.
Fix the Family is the flagship program of a lay Catholic teaching Apostolate.
Most modern feminists would not agree with this quotation by one of the great early femonists.
This was quite a radical, feminist statement at the time. But it gives us a good insight into the sexism that then existed where for many the belief was that a young woman would be harmed by a college education.
Frances Hamilton Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes. Frances Arnold is a director of Alphabet Inc. since December 2019.
