American - Novelist | 1956 -
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
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Wandering the book fair at AWP is a great way to get acquainted with a wide sampling of the diverse journals that are out there and the wide sampling of people who produce them.
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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.
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The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.
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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.
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As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.
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Many of my friends are scientists.
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The world is a complex place.
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Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.
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Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.
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When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.
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I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.
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