Tag: Women

Intelligent Women

*GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ! *

How many men have I heard say they want an intelligent woman in their lives!.

I would encourage them to think through.

The Intelligent Women

they make decisions for themselves, have their own desires and set boundaries.

You will never be the center of her life because it revolves around itself.

An intelligent woman is not going to be manipulated or blackmailed, she doesn’t swallow blame, she takes responsibilities.

The Intelligent Women

questioning, analyzing, discussing,

don’t comply, move forward.

Those women had life before you and they know they’ll still have it once you gone.

She’s here to warn, not ask for permission.

Those women do not look in a partner for a leader to follow,

to a dad to fix their life, not a son to rescue.

They don’t want to follow you or mark the way for anyone,

they want to walk by your side.

She knows that life free from violence is a right,

not a luxury or a privilege.

They express anger, sadness,

joy and fear in the same,

because they know that fear

doesn’t make them weak just as anger doesn’t make you “masculine”.

Those two emotions and the others, all together, make her human. And now!

A smart woman is free because she has fought for her freedom.

But she’s not a victim, she’s a survivor.

Don’t try to chain her

because she’ll know how to escape.

Remember he has done it before.

The intelligent woman knows that her value does not lie in the appearance of her body

nor in what I do with him.

Think twice before you judge her by her age, height, volume or sexual behavior,

because this is emotional violence and she knows it.

Sooooo… before you open your mouth to say what you wish

to a “smart” woman in your life, ask yourself if you are really made to fit into hers.

Broke the glass ceiling -Cecillia Payne

I did not know that!

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”

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Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.

Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there’s not much exposure for woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

Photograph: Schlesinger Library.