I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don't like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

You don't need to change everything in your life instantly. All you need is one positive thought.

Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.

If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.

Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.