| Distinguished Women of Past and Present |
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| "Men have long had male role models after whom to pattern their lives. From time immemorial, scholars have been able to analyze the seeds of male leadership by studying the lives of presidents and generals. It's not uncommon for little boys to grow up saying they want to be fishermen or policemen or even president of the United States. But until now, little girls didn't have political role models to dream about or learn from." --Dorothy W. Cantor and Toni Bernay with Jean Stoess in Women in Power: The Secrets of Leadership |
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| "... women took up anatomy, astronomy, and religious activism. Career seekers became blacksmiths and butchers, printers and philanthropists, wool merchants and pull-the-wool scam artists. Whatever their social class, wherever their home town, they had a chin-up attitude..." --Vicky León in Uppity Women of Medieval Times |
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| "Many of these women faced enormous obstacles. They were confined to basement laboratories and attic offices. They crawled behind furniture to attend science lectures. They worked in universities for decades without pay as volunteers--in the United States as late as the 1950s" --Sharon Bertsch McGrayne in Nobel Prize Women in Science |
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