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I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

The majority of my audience has always been women.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.