There’s lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn’t make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I’m not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
I wasn’t handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That’s the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
Everything’s a real passion to me – my children, my family, my work, travel. I don’t play tennis, I don’t play music, but I have a great time. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
They told me that, as a woman, I’d never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
