I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor so I come from a very academic background. I love writing you know?

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background but there was a lot of love which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view and then learning how to perform that function.

I saw as a teacher how if you take that spark of learning that those children have and you ignite it you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.