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Dedicated, Not Delicate
Germain's parents believed the prevailing theory that signifiant mental pursuits were detrimental to women's delicate health, so they forbid her from studying, even going so far as not lighting the fire in her room on winter nights and making her sleep in her birthday suit, in hopes that she would be too cold to get out of bed to study. But Germain was undeterred, sneaking candles in for light and wrapping herself in her blankets to study. Eventually her parents came around and supported her work.
Bibliography: Doyle, Caitlin. Girls Can Do Anything: From Sports to Innovation, Art to Politics, Meet Over 200 Women Who Got There First. Buffalo: Firefly Books, 2016. Print.
Gray, Mary W. "Germaine, Sophie." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 2. Oxford University Press, 2008, 372-373.
Rose, Paulette and Ronald K. Smeltzer. "Marie-Sophie Germain." Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine: Four Centuries of Achievement, The Grolier Club, 2013, 76-81.
Yount, Lisa. A to Z of Women in Science and Math. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1999. Print.
Gray, Mary W. "Germaine, Sophie." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 2. Oxford University Press, 2008, 372-373.
Rose, Paulette and Ronald K. Smeltzer. "Marie-Sophie Germain." Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine: Four Centuries of Achievement, The Grolier Club, 2013, 76-81.
Yount, Lisa. A to Z of Women in Science and Math. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1999. Print.
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