Marie Curie
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It's difficult enough to be a scientist. To devote endless hours for research, skip your favorite talk show, chose less profitable future. It's challenging to devote your life to books and experiments, while tangible results are uncertain. It's painful to put in extra hours for studying, while your friends are having fun or developing their love life. It's brave to offer your life for the higher good, while millions are way more into earthly pleasures. But to be a woman scientist is an entirely different matter. Men don't have to choose between family and career, they don't have to be equally good mothers and employees, manage households and convey scientific theories. Men don't have to explain their love affairs, younger lovers, negligence at home. Men are not criticized by the army of other men. They are admired. Women are patronized by men and ostracized by women. As if it wasn't difficult enough to be a scientist. Someone finally has to beat the system. There was one woman who outwitted many men, who was awarded not one but two Nobel Prizes for achievements in science. Marie Curie. An inspiration for many, maybe also for you. Enjoy.
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