Frances Arnold Quotes

I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I'm happy that life isn't like that. I'm glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

If we could produce one or two more Madame Curies, that would accomplish far more for the advancement of women than any amount of agitation, argument and legislation.

There are lot of brilliant women in chemistry, a little later than some of the men, but they are amazing.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

My inbox is now bulging with touching emails from young women scientists who have been kind enough to write and thank me for inspiring them and helping them on their way. It has also been of great comfort to me to see many women at the top of science testifying for my record in supporting women scientists.

Every woman inspires me.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

Women in the war. We can't win without them.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist…. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing

There’s a woman at the beginning of all great things.

The Muslim women have a no lesser role than that of men in the war of liberation; they manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation …

In newspaper literature woman made her entrance at an early period and in an important manner. The first daily newspaper in the world was established and edited by a woman, Elizabeth Malet, in London, March, 1702. It was called The Daily Courant.

Women were really the backbone of the civil rights movement, although the leadership was predominantly male. At the rallies, the audience was women and children. The platform was predominantly men.

If there was ever any doubt in anyone’s mind that women can become skillful pilots, the WASPs have dispelled that doubt.

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?

I'm really glad that I kept the gap. There are a lot of iconic women from past and present who have one.