Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children
“I forgot to tell you, in my last letter, that I was a girl. I mean I am a girl. I have always regretted this a great deal, but by now I have become more or less resigned to the fact. Anyway, I hate dresses and dances and all the kind of rot girls usually like. I much prefer horses and riding. Long ago, before I wanted to become a scientist, I wanted to b e a jockey and ride horses in races. But that was ages ago, now. I hope you will not think any the less of me for being a girl!” ~Tyffany, South Africa, September, 19, 1946, in letter to Albert Einstein
“I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.” Einstein’s reply, October 1946
(Source: brainpickings.org)
