Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes About Discrimination

• The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Leadership, Discrimination, Social

• Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. ... The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Mother, Children, Memories

• I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Thinking, Class, Long

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