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• ‟ The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.

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• ‟ It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.

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• ‟ The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

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• ‟ I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

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• ‟ People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.

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• ‟ I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

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• ‟ Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.

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• ‟ For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

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• ‟ My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

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