Activities and Family
Growing up in Chicago, Ghez first wanted to be a ballerina. The moon landings inspired her to be the first female astronaut and her mother supported her goal. Her only female role model was her high school chemistry teacher. She started out in college by majoring in mathematics but changed to physics.
Ghez is married to Tom LaTourrette who is a geologist and research scientist at the RAND corporation. They have two young sons, Evan born in 2001 and Miles born in 2005. Ghez is a passionate swimmer in the Masters Swim Club which she uses to take a break from science.
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Famous quotes containing the words activities and, activities and/or family:
“As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do—I just did it.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
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“If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?”
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