The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.
Born in 1862, Fuller, like almost all American early modern dancers, had a career in popular theatre skirt dancing, pantomime, you name it before anyone encouraged her to move beyond that and, as a first step, go to Europe.
And goodness knows, looking back I'm surprised anyone encouraged this confused young thing who trounced into Triple R in Melbourne wearing seven different subcultural signifiers because I couldn't commit to one look.
They lamented what the world was coming to, and suggested that anyone encouraging this defunct language to move from endangered to extinct was proposing the most barbarous act of linguistic vandalism.
Drew credits it and early counselling with turning his life around, as it was the first time anyone encouraged him creatively and asked him to question why he was so angry.
"Anyone encouraging them to sell wasn't watching Twitter the other night when Osama Bin Laden was killed".
"The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on," she writes.
Especially since I'd be traveling alone, and it's easy to get lazy and unsociable when you don't have anyone encouraging you to go outside your comfort zone, I wanted to push myself to really adventure.
He stated that if anyone encouraged his partner to smoke again he would, "step in pretty quickly and tell them to beat it".
