Pearl S. Buck

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

—Pearl S. Buck

American author who spent most of her
life in China. She won the Pulitzer Prize
for “The Good Earth” in 1932.
In 1938 she was the first American
woman awarded the Nobel Prize
in Literature.

Week 28: Marie Curie

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”

—Marie Curie

A physicist and pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

Below picture: First Solvay Conference (1911), Skłodowska-Curie (seated, 2nd from right) confers with Henri Poincaré. Standing, 4th from right, is Rutherford; 2nd from right, Einstein; far right, Paul Langevin.

Week 20: Toni Morrison

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”


--Toni Morrison

Nobel prize-winning
author, editor &
professor
Quote from Beloved
Toni Morrison on The Bluest Eye