Mildred Quotes

“Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.”

“Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.”

“Happiness is a conscious choice not an automatic response.”

“We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.”

“The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.”

“Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.”

“(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street”

“One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.”

“All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.”

“Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off.”

“Follow your interests get the best available education and training set your sights high be persistent be flexible keep your options open accept help when offered and be prepared to help others.”