Normal' Is A Dryer Setting.

Having To Struggle Gave Me The Chance To Demonstrate Strength Of Character.

So When I Got Out Of The Military, I Went Back To School In Biology, And Earned A Biology Degree At The University Of Texas, And Then Did Some Graduate Work In It.

I Always Thought My Questions Were Wrong Questions Because No One Else Asked Them. Maybe No One Thought Of Them. Maybe Darkness Got There First. Maybe I Am The First Light Touching A Gulf Of Ignorance... Maybe My Questions Matter.

A Tree Is Alive, And Thus It Is Always More Than You Can See. Roots To Leaves, Yes-those You Can, In Part, See. But It Is More-it Is The Lichens And Moss And Ferns That Grow On Its Bark, The Life Too Small To See That Lives Among Its Roots, A Community We Know Of, But Do Not Think On. It Is Every Fly And Bee And Beetle That Uses It For Shelter Or Food, Every Bird That Nests In Its Branches. Every One An Individual, And Yet Every One Part Of The Tree, And The Tree Part Of Every One.

Having A Mother Who Had Been An Aeronautical Engineer Convinced Me That More Things Should Be Open To Women.