I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cats meow. – Danica McKellar
People talk about getting rid of the old image, and I guess theres some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved The Wonder Years – I cant turn my back on it. – Danica McKellar
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math arent usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. Its structures and patterns, and thats what we love, and thats what we get off on. – Danica McKellar
Its really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done. – Danica McKellar
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that its too late by college. – Danica McKellar
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. – Elizabeth Wurtzel