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I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.
I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.
I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves.
In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.
It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.
The bourgeois woman not only demands her own bread, but she also requests spiritual nourishment and wants to develop her individuality.
The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, 'And he shall be your master.'
When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession of a certain amount of property, but that it should be inherent in the woman herself.
A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am.
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.
Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.
Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.
I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.
I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall.
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