``Men have what it takes to run large research groups: aggressive, dominating attitudes. You have to be egotistical. You can be egotistical and still act like a woman.''
``Look at yourself and what you do, and see that it's great. Convey that in your proposals. `I'm great, and I'm the only one in the world who can do this.' If you show doubt, you don't get funded. Look at the large, funded programs, and what they claimed when they asked for funding. Yes, this is egotistical, but it's necessary to win funding.''
``As a graduate student, you'll be fighting for space, fighting with other graduate students. And most of them will be men. You don't have to be calm and quiet about it.''
``Almost from day one I have been a fairly visible person in my department. I took some nontrivial courses from the beginning and audited others (good for getting to know more faculty and expressing interest). I attend a lot of the department parties. I go to talks presented by visiting scientists, even those not in my field. I talk to students in all areas of research, just to find out what goes on in the rest of the field. In my second year, I was on the executive board of our department graduate student organization, and then became coordinator of the graduate student talk series. I'd advise any new student to do these kind of things - not so much for visibility, as for his or her own intellectual benefit.''