Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p But friends who saw [Paulina] out of Alice's presence said that she had an intellect to rival her mother's — she could recite poetry ad infinitum — and, when she chose to reveal it, a marvelous dry wit..... The late Horace Taft once got into a discussion with Paulina, who was his contemporary and friend, about women in various professions. Horace argued that while women did pretty well in some things, 'in sciences they're just nowhere. I could name fifty prominent male scientists for every woman,' he assured her. 'Marie Curie. Name 50,' she replied. -Excerpt from Carol Felsenthal's ''Princess Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. }
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- Paulina_Longworth_Sturm quote "But friends who saw [Paulina] out of Alice's presence said that she had an intellect to rival her mother's — she could recite poetry ad infinitum — and, when she chose to reveal it, a marvelous dry wit..... The late Horace Taft once got into a discussion with Paulina, who was his contemporary and friend, about women in various professions. Horace argued that while women did pretty well in some things, 'in sciences they're just nowhere. I could name fifty prominent male scientists for every woman,' he assured her. 'Marie Curie. Name 50,' she replied. -Excerpt from Carol Felsenthal's ''Princess Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth".