“People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for late...” — Mildred Dresselhaus Quote

“People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.”

“When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.”

“The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a linear E versus K while everything else that people were working on at that time had a quadratic dispersion relationship. I wondered why this was and what was so special about it. That was my fascination.”

“I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.”

“If all you ever play with a cornerback in there is man to man, it is a disadvantage.”

“It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't have any audience at all. Ultimately, I'm my audience. I'm writing stories for myself. I don't have kids of my own, and I don't hang around kids all that much. Maybe that puts me at a disadvantage.”