I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing. Eileen Pollack Read Quote
All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they’re too smart, especially in the sciences – ‘No one will date them. They won’t be popular.’ – don’t apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged. Eileen Pollack Read Quote
For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality. Eileen Pollack Read Quote
I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn’t the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions. Eileen Pollack Read Quote
As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors. Eileen Pollack Read Quote
Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods. Eileen Pollack Read Quote
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple. Eileen Pollack Read Quote
When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away. Eileen Pollack Read Quote
