The epidemic psychosis of our time is the lie of believing we have no ethical obligation to our planetary home. - Theodore Roszak

Because girls are raised to specialize in a certain set of human characteristics, would they not, then, bring to science a different sensibility? Does that sensibility have the right to be represented in science—or, for that matter, in business, politics, law, or medicine?

Reduced to the statistical permutations of genes, life became "nothing but" the marriage of chance and selection.

Women enter the sciences, but "womanliness"—those qualities that have always been stereotypically attributed to females—is not yet entirely welcome, whether it comes into the laboratory wearing pants or a skirt.