When women our age started in the field, there were very few of us, and we were absolutely on the margins. People pretty much ignored us. I have come to realize that there was a great freedom in being ignored, that you could go after huge questions, because nobody noticed.
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as quoted by Jane Gitschier in, cite web|title=Evidence Is Evidence: An Interview with Mary-Claire King|date=September 26, 2013|journal=PLoS Genet|volume=9}issue=9)|page=e1003828|url=doi.org